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Martin Seymour-Smith was born on 24 April, 1928, is a British poet and literary critic. Discover Martin Seymour-Smith's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?
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Martin Roger Seymour-Smith (24 April 1928 – 1 July 1998) was a British poet, literary critic, and biographer.
Seymour-Smith was born in London and educated at Highgate School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he was editor of Isis and Oxford Poetry.
His father Frank was a chief librarian who supplied books to Robert Graves, and who published the survey An English Library, an Annotated List of 1300 Classics in 1943, followed by What Shall I Read Next: a Personal Selection of Twentieth Century English Books in 1953.
His mother Marjorie wrote poetry and published under the name of Elena Fearn.
He began as one of the most promising of Anglophone post-war poets, but became better known as a critic, writing biographies of Robert Graves (whom he met first at age 14 and maintained close ties with), Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Hardy, and producing numerous critical studies.
The poet and critic Robert Nye stated that Seymour-Smith was "one of the finest British poets after 1945."
The stature of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time (1951–1976) as the greatest fictional post-war achievement was asserted: a view endorsed by Kingsley Amis and Hilary Spurling.
He married in 1952 while spending a working holiday in Mallorca where Robert Graves employed Janet de Granville as a translator and he was a tutor to Graves' son.
Graves was a witness at the wedding.
Seymour-Smith came to prominence in 1963, as the editor of the first twentieth-century edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets to use the 'original' spelling.
Characteristically, his commentary concerned Shakespeare's sexuality, which upset many.
His two volumes of poetry Tea with Miss Stockport (1963) and Reminiscences of Norma (1971), were praised by many, including Peter Porter.
Later, his Fallen Women (1969) and Sex and Society (1975) would become 'standard plundering material for more famous works' as the author good-humouredly claimed.
He had known Alex Comfort, who was then writing The Joy of Sex (1972), from their schooldays at Highgate School and the two often swapped notes.
Seymour-Smith's Poets Through their Letters Vol 1 (Wyatt to Coleridge) was acclaimed for its scholarship, but sold poorly.
Hence, Volume 2 was never published.
Cyril Connolly said of the first (1973) edition: "I'm very much afraid he will prove indispensable!"
Anthony Burgess likened Seymour-Smith to Samuel Johnson due to his many literary surveys from The Guide to Modern World Literature in 1975 onwards.
In 1981, The New Astrologer was published, Seymour-Smith's only book on this subject.
But an apparent creative silence till his last collection, Wilderness (1994), led to a decline in his reputation with the reading public during the 1980s.
The Guide to Modern World Literature is an encyclopaedic attempt to describe all major 20th-century authors, in all languages.
The book is over 1450 pages long.
He also predicted that T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets would not survive as a great poem by 2000.
The polyglot Seymour-Smith further used the book to champion writers he regarded as under-rated, such as James Hanley, Laura Riding, Wyndham Lewis, Roberto Arlt, Pio Baroja, Rayner Heppenstall and Jose Maria Arguedas, while attacking those he felt were overvalued, such as George Bernard Shaw, W. H. Auden and as mentioned above, T. S. Eliot.
Seymour-Smith also disparaged Harold Pinter, Margaret Atwood, and Tom Stoppard, whom he thought over-rated.
When the 2013 new edition of the Oxford Companion of Modern Poetry was published, he was notably not included.
He married Janet de Glanville who was a translator and his and Robert Graves' collaborator.
When he was asked how he managed to read so much he admitted that he hadn't. Janet had.
They were rarely apart and she died two months after he did.