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South African-British writer (1903–1973)
William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE (10 December 1903 – 20 September 1973) was a South African and British novelist, poet and literary editor. He also
William_Plomer
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Look up plomer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plomer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Plomer baronets John Plomer (c. 1410 –
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Topics referred to by the same term
William Plomer was a writer. William Plomer may also refer to: William Plomer (MP for Great Bedwyn), English politician William Plomer (MP for Cricklade)
William Plomer (disambiguation)
William_Plomer_(disambiguation)
& Hawkes. Gloriana, Op. 53: Opera in three acts, 148'. Libretto by William Plomer, after Elizabeth and Essex by Lytton Strachey. Premiered on 8 June 1953
List of compositions by Benjamin Britten
List_of_compositions_by_Benjamin_Britten
Novel by Ian Fleming
and the manuscript had passed through the hands of his copy editor, William Plomer. Much of the detail contained in the previous novels was missing, as
The Man with the Golden Gun (novel)
The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gun_(novel)
British writer (1908–1964)
his friend William Plomer to see a copy, and remarked "so far as I can see the element of suspense is completely absent". Despite this, Plomer thought the
Ian_Fleming
1953 novel by Ian Fleming, the first James Bond book
suitable for publication, but was assured by his friend, the novelist William Plomer, that the novel had promise. Within the spy storyline, Casino Royale
Casino_Royale_(novel)
1974 composition by Benjamin Britten
rock", published in Early Youth. He wrote it in memory of his friend William Plomer. The work was premiered by Peter Pears and Osian Ellis at Schloss Elmau
Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus
Canticle_V:_The_Death_of_Saint_Narcissus
1964 English music drama by Benjamin Britten
English music drama, with music by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by William Plomer. The first of Britten's three 'Parables for Church Performance', the
Curlew_River
English modernist writer (1890-1937)
Company, Kingston, NY, ISBN 0-929701-55-0 D'Arfey, William (pseudonym of Anthony Butts & William Plomer), Curious Relations. Fictionalised family memoirs
Mary_Butts
English politician
William Plomer (fl. 1382–1390), of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, was an English politician. He was a member (MP) of the parliament of England for Great Bedwyn
William Plomer (MP for Great Bedwyn)
William_Plomer_(MP_for_Great_Bedwyn)
South African literary journal (1926-27)
African Life and Art". The magazine was founded by Roy Campbell and William Plomer; Laurens van der Post was invited to become its Afrikaans correspondent
Voorslag
English novelist (1901–1955)
friends, including Forrest Reid, J. R. Ackerley, William Plomer, John Lehmann, and E. M. Forster. On Plomer's advice Hampson sent three manuscripts to Leonard
John_Hampson_(novelist)
English priest (fl. 1490s – 1530s)
deprived in 1535. The writer William Plomer claimed relationship with Plummer, referring to him as ""Christopher Plomer, a canon of Windsor... unfrocked
Christopher_Plummer_(priest)
British poet (1895–1949)
London. She was independently wealthy. In 1929, she met the writer William Plomer CBE and through him, Laurens van der Post. She published two novels
Lilian_Bowes_Lyon
Permission granted in 1971 by Pope Paul VI
John Murray Seán Ó Faoláin E. J. Oliver Oxford and Asquith William Plomer Kathleen Raine William Rees-Mogg Ralph Richardson John Ripon Charles Russell Rivers
Agatha_Christie_indult
1974 song by Roger Glover
worked on a solo project. Their plan was to make a rock opera based on William Plomer and Alan Aldridge's picture book The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's
Love Is All (Roger Glover song)
Love_Is_All_(Roger_Glover_song)
Greek poet, essayist and critic
Capetanakis in New Writing and became a close friend. Through Lehmann he met William Plomer. For a short period he went to Birmingham to help a team of the Friends
Demetrios_Capetanakis
Novel by Ian Fleming
thought he had exhausted his inspiration for plots. He told the writer William Plomer—his friend who proof-read all the Bond books—that Goldfinger was to
Goldfinger_(novel)
South African writer (1906–1996)
teams. In 1926, he and two other rebellious writers, Roy Campbell and William Plomer, published a satirical magazine called Voorslag (whip lash) which criticised
Laurens_van_der_Post
English actor (born 1947)
for Tutankhamun" Anton Badrutt TV film 2005 Ian Fleming: Bondmaker William Plomer docudrama about Ian Fleming Film 2005 Splinter Glasses TV film 2006
Nickolas_Grace
English novelist and writer (1879–1970)
He was friends with fellow gay novelist Christopher Isherwood, whom William Plomer introduced to him in 1932 and to whom he showed an early draft of Maurice
E._M._Forster
1935 novel by Humphrey Cobb
unfortunate timing. In his review in The Spectator, British writer William Plomer made a prediction that was later borne out: "Had Paths of Glory been
Paths_of_Glory_(Cobb_novel)
Extinct baronetcy in the Baronetage of England
1697. John Plomer, uncle of the first Baronet, was the ancestor of Walter Plumer and Richard Plumer, both MPs, and of their brother William Plumer and
Plomer_baronets
Afrikaans writers' movement
in South African literature pioneered in the 1920s by Roy Campbell, William Plomer, and Laurens van der Post. The Sestigers sought to elevate Afrikaans
Sestigers
Fictional spy
had a number of gay friends, including Noël Coward and his editor, William Plomer, he said that his books were "written for warm-blooded heterosexuals"
James Bond (literary character)
James_Bond_(literary_character)
1934 novel by Evelyn Waugh
sometimes tragedy from the knockabout farce of people's outward behaviour". William Plomer, writing in The Spectator after the book's first publication, thought
A_Handful_of_Dust
1953 opera by Benjamin Britten
an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
Gloriana
British publisher and editor (1907–1999)
Hart-Davis recruited a successful group of authors ranging from the poets William Plomer, Cecil Day-Lewis, Edmund Blunden and Robert Frost, to the humorist Beachcomber
Rupert_Hart-Davis
South African poet (1901–1957)
considered "bovine". Before the magazine was launched, Campbell invited William Plomer to help with it, and late in the year, Laurens van der Post was invited
Roy_Campbell_(poet)
Ichikawa, translated by Shigeo Inouyé (Japanese: 井上思外雄), and edited by William Plomer, which was published by Jonathan Cape in London, and E. P. Dutton in
Haruko_Ichikawa
Novel by Ian Fleming
Before Fleming left for Jamaica, he wrote to his friend and copy editor William Plomer that he was "terribly stuck with James Bond. What was easy at 40 is
Thunderball_(novel)
British artist (1938–2017)
created in collaboration with Harry Willock. William Plomer wrote the accompanying verses. This was based on William Roscoe's poem of the same name, but was
Alan_Aldridge
with music composed by Benjamin Britten, his Opus 77, to a libretto by William Plomer. One of Britten's three Parables for Church Performances, this work
The_Burning_Fiery_Furnace
Watkin Lewes 1773 Stephen Sayre, Sir William Plomer (resigned and replaced by William Lee) 1774 Sir William Plomer, John Hart, Nathaniel Newham 1775 Nathaniel
List of sheriffs of the City of London
List_of_sheriffs_of_the_City_of_London
1802 poem by William Roscoe
Feast is also the title of a 1973 picture book by Alan Aldridge and William Plomer, loosely based on the poem. This greatly expanded and altered the original
The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast
The_Butterfly's_Ball,_and_the_Grasshopper's_Feast
South African citizens of European ancestry
hit ABC family series Pretty Little Liars Hubert du Plessis, composer William Plomer, novelist, poet and literary editor Louis Hendrik Potgieter, member
White_South_Africans
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
also published political fiction, including Turbott Wolfe (1926) by William Plomer and In a Province (1934) by Laurens van der Post, which concern South
Virginia_Woolf
1957 book by Ian Fleming
manuscript to the writer William Plomer for proofreading, as he did with all the Bond novels. In his correspondence with Plomer he referred to the book
The_Diamond_Smugglers
Demoiselles d'Avignon Pixinguinha Brazil 17 February 1973 Composer William Plomer South Africa 20 September 1973 Writer Andy Razaf United States 3 February
2024_in_public_domain
Sajjad Zaheer, Urdu writer and revolutionary (born 1899) September 20 – William Plomer, South African-born British novelist, poet and literary editor (born
1973_in_literature
English eccentric (1911–1987)
Although he maintained a lively social life, with close friends including William Plomer, John and Penelope Betjeman, and Raymond Mortimer, Heber-Percy was dedicated
Robert_Heber-Percy
Former English literary journal
Kenneth Clark, Cyril Connolly, E. M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, F. L. Lucas, William Plomer, Peter Quennell, Dilys Powell, Lytton Strachey, Evelyn Waugh, Antonia
Life_and_Letters
Media franchise about a British spy
Royale, Fleming showed it to his friend (and later editor) William Plomer to read. Plomer liked it and submitted it to the publishers, Jonathan Cape,
James_Bond
British weekly political and cultural news magazine
primary interests were literature and theology. Hutton's close friend William Gladstone later called him "the first critic of the nineteenth century"
The_Spectator
Collection of short stories by Ian Fleming
thought he had exhausted his inspiration for plots. He told the writer William Plomer—his friend who proof-read all the Bond books—that the novel was to be
For Your Eyes Only (short story collection)
For_Your_Eyes_Only_(short_story_collection)
Mosotho writer (1876 - 1948)
In 1976, Nadine Gordimer created the Mofolo-Plomer Prize in honour of Thomas Mofolo and William Plomer. More recently, the Thomas Mofolo Prize for Outstanding
Thomas_Mofolo
Longest poem of F. L. Lucas
giving to images of primitive force a modern psychological dress". William Plomer in The Spectator found the poem "better than many a modern novel. It
Ariadne_(poem)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1801–1832
1295 Sir William Russell (d.1311), Lord of Yaverland 1386 John Combe William Bailiff 1388 (Feb) 1388 (Sep) 1390 (Jan) John Combe William Plomer 1399 Thomas
Great_Bedwyn_(constituency)
1956 novel by Ian Fleming
abounds in such passages of high technical skill". When the writer William Plomer was proof-reading the manuscript he saw literary merit, and wrote to
Diamonds_Are_Forever_(novel)
death in 1879. In the 1930s, the surviving diaries were passed on to William Plomer, who transcribed them, before returning the originals to Kilvert's closest
List_of_lost_literary_works
French diplomat, writer, explorer, physician and historian
2008) "Byron had yet to die to make philhellenism generally acceptable" William Plomer "The Diamond of Jannina" (Taplinger Publishing New York 1970) "By-the-bye
François_Pouqueville
1954 James Bond novel by Ian Fleming
Casino Royale, Fleming showed the manuscript to his friend, the writer William Plomer, who reacted favourably to the story, telling Fleming that "the new
Live_and_Let_Die_(novel)
Fictional character in P. G. Wodehouse stories
of the community in attendance. He is taking the place of Reverend William Plomer, who is out due to illness. After making some snide remarks to the previous
Gussie_Fink-Nottle
Award
1967: Charles Causley 1965: Philip Larkin 1964: R. S. Thomas 1963: William Plomer 1962: Christopher Fry 1960: John Betjeman 1959: Frances Cornford 1957:
King's_Gold_Medal_for_Poetry
British anthropologist, philanthropist and politician
1918 to rival J. Lyons & Co. He married Laura Isabel Plomer (aunt of the writer William Plomer), and the couple had three children. He died at his London
Emslie_Horniman
Evans-Pritchard, British anthropologist (born 1902) 20 September – William Plomer, South African-born novelist, poet and literary editor (born 1903) 21
1973_in_the_United_Kingdom
1955 novel by Ian Fleming
Moonraker Scare and The Moonraker Plan, while his friend, the writer William Plomer, suggested Hell is Here; the final choice of Moonraker was a suggestion
Moonraker_(novel)
English writer (1920–2014)
biography was inevitable and had originally asked the novelist William Plomer to write one. Plomer found it impossible to describe Forster's sexuality and Furbank
P._N._Furbank
British director, writer, and actor (1935–2013)
7. August 1954 15 Poems for William Shakespeare, with an introduction by Patrick Garland, John Lehmann, & William Plomer; Eric Walter White, (editor)
Patrick_Garland
Prodigal Son is a music drama by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by William Plomer. Based on the Biblical story of the Prodigal Son, this was Britten's
The_Prodigal_Son_(Britten)
Casey Motsisi S.E.K. Mqhayi Oswald Mtshali Arthur Nortje D. J. Opperman William Plomer Karen Press Thomas Pringle N.S. Puleng Lesego Rampolokeng Azila Talit
List_of_South_African_poets
British writer
edited and censored, possibly by his widow. Later they were passed on to William Plomer who transcribed the remaining diaries and edited and published a three-volume
Francis_Kilvert
1964 James Bond novel by Ian Fleming
Towards the end of February 1963 he wrote to his friend and copy editor William Plomer: "I have completed Opus XII save for 2 or 3 pages and am amazed that
You_Only_Live_Twice_(novel)
British poet, author and critic (1896–1974)
honour for which poems were specially written by Cecil Day-Lewis and William Plomer; T. S. Eliot and Walter de la Mare were guests; and Sassoon provided
Edmund_Blunden
English publisher (1907–1987)
Macleod Louis MacNeice Ewart Milne Nicholas Moore Norman Nicholson William Plomer Pandelis Prevelakis F. T. Prince Henry Reed Anne Ridler Alan Ross May
John_Lehmann
UK literary magazine published from 1939 to 1950
Ben Nicholson Sean O'Faolain George Orwell Jean Paulhan John Piper William Plomer John Pope-Hennessy J. B. Priestley Peter Quennell Kathleen Raine Herbert
Horizon_(British_magazine)
British poet and critic (1930-2021)
Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1961), editor with Hilary Corke and William Plomer The Owl in the Tree (1963), poems Japan in Color (1967) The Stones of
Anthony_Thwaite
British indie musician
Everything / God Complex. Mark William Lewis plays with Billy Howard Price on drums, Jamie Neville on lead guitar, and Harry Plomer on bass guitar. At the start
Mark_William_Lewis
Civil post in Bedfordshire, England
Sandy, 1st Baronet 1612: William Beecher 1613: Richard Saunders 1614: Sir Edward Duncombe 6 November 1615: Sir William Plomer 11 November 1616: Roger Burgoyne
High_Sheriff_of_Bedfordshire
Logue - Hugh MacDiarmid - Louis MacNeice - Dom Moraes - Edwin Muir - William Plomer - F. T. Prince - Martin Seymour-Smith - C. H. Sisson - Stevie Smith
Penguin_poetry_anthologies
Former annual literary awards
Trollope — 1973 Shiva Naipaul The Chip-Chip Gatherers — Alan Aldridge and William Plomer The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast — John Wilson CB: A Life
Costa_Book_Awards
Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: William Plomer Problems of Communism. Documentary Studies Section, International Information
1963_in_literature
E.M. Forster book of essays
Forster began assembling a collection of his essays with the support of William Plomer. Some of the writing was taken from as far back as his time in Egypt
Abinger_Harvest
English writer
Literary Supplement and the London Magazine. It drew the attention of William Plomer, then poetry editor at Jonathan Cape and a powerful figure in the poetry
Ted_Walker
Newspaper from Cape Town, South Africa
(editor 2009-13) Tony Heard (editor 1971-1986) James Matthews Sol Plaatje William Plomer Allister Sparks (columnist) Barry Streek (political journalist 1976-2001)
Cape_Times
Topics referred to by the same term
(novel), a 1928 novel by Hilda Vaughan The Invaders (1934), a novel by William Plomer The Invaders (1948), a novel by Waldo Frank The Invaders (1967), a novel
Invader
permission to include Robert Graves, Laura Riding, John Gray, and Sir William Watson, and that Rudyard Kipling and Ezra Pound were under-represented
Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935
Oxford_Book_of_Modern_Verse_1892–1935
Peacemaker Baroness Orczy The Miser of Maida Vale A Question of Temptation William Plomer – Turbott Wolfe Gene Stratton-Porter – The Keeper of the Bees Marcel
1925_in_literature
English ceremonial officer
Hale – King's Walden 1633: Henry Coghill 1634: William Plomer 1635: William Priestley 1636: William Leman 1636: Ralph Freeman 1637: Thomas Coningesby 1638:
High_Sheriff_of_Hertfordshire
Gallery collection is a portrait of South African/British writer and poet William Plomer seated on a chair, in oils, dated 1929. The Dixson Galleries in Sydney
Edward_Wolfe_(artist)
of Christopher Murray Grieve, Second Hymn to Lenin, and Other Poems William Plomer, The Fivefold Screen Aeneas Francon Williams, Dream Drift, by a Young
1932_in_poetry
Annual literary award for debut novels
Result Ref. 1972 Rumer Godden The Diddakoi Winner 1973 Alan Aldridge and William Plomer The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast Winner 1974 Russell Hoban
Costa Book Award for Children's Book
Costa_Book_Award_for_Children's_Book
List of poetry anthologies
Norman Nicholson - Herbert Palmer - V. de Sola Pinto - Ruth Pitter - William Plomer - F. T. Prince - John Pudney - Kathleen Raine - Herbert Read - Henry
Poems_of_Today
1971) December 10 Mary Norton, English children's writer (died 1992) William Plomer (Robert Pagan), South African-born novelist, poet, literary editor and
1903_in_literature
was still a student), Bury married Jane (born 1616), daughter of Sir William Plomer, of Radwell, Hertfordshire, and Hill, Bedfordshire. Bury married, secondly
William_Bury_(Roundhead)
English writer, composer and mineralogist
Contemporary Verse (1962 edition). Together with Anthony Thwaite and William Plomer he edited New Poems 1961: A P.E.N Anthology of Contemporary Poetry.
Hilary_Corke
Award
Mitford, Elma Napier, Robert C. O'Brien, Jirō Osaragi, Vera Panova, William Plomer, Brigitte Reimann, Sergio Tofano, Margaret Wilson and Nobuko Yoshiya
1973 Nobel Prize in Literature
1973_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature
Irving Berlin's same-named song, Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, William Wyler's Jezebel with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, David Butler's Kentucky
2034_in_public_domain
Benin/Ivory Coast, d/f) Luise von Ploennies (1803–1872, Germany, p/d) William Plomer (1903–1973, S Africa/England, f/p/nf Vivienne Plumb (born 1955, N Zealand
List_of_writers_by_name:_P
English merchant and printer (c. 1422–c. 1491)
William Caxton: A Quincentenary Biography of England's First Printer. London: Chatto and Windus. ISBN 070112198X. Plomer, Henry R. (1925). William Caxton
William_Caxton
Village and parish in West Sussex, England
for his work on Match of the Day and Robot Wars, lives in Hassocks. William Plomer (1903–1973), poet, novelist, biographer etc. died at 43, Adastra Avenue
Hassocks
William A. Percy; Stephen Donaldson (1990). Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Garland Pub. ISBN 0-8240-6544-1. Percy, William Armstrong (1997). "William
List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: P–Q
List_of_gay,_lesbian_or_bisexual_people:_P–Q
Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Ghana Shailja Patel, Kenya Lenrie Peters, Gambia William Plomer, South Africa Louis-Marie Pouka, Cameroon Karen Press, South Africa
List_of_African_poets
17th century London tavern
September 1787). "Tuesday the Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Crosby, and Sir William Plomer, met at St. Margaret's Hill". The Times (854): 3. Richard Guard (2012)
Dog and Duck, St George's Fields
Dog_and_Duck,_St_George's_Fields
2008 novel by Charlie Higson
February 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2010. Fleming, Ian (1964). "21". In William Plomer (ed.). You Only Live Twice. Jonathan Cape. "Charlie talks By Royal Command"
By_Royal_Command
Book series
China Cupboard and other poems 9. C. Day-Lewis Transitional Poem 10. William Plomer The Family Tree 11. Vita Sackville-West King's Daughter 14. Edwin Arlington
Hogarth_Living_Poets
Historic site in New South Wales, Australia
foot. By this time the site of International House was owned by Peter William Plomer. The contemporary rate books describe the property as a two or three
International_House,_Sydney
Five compositions by Benjamin Britten
Death of Saint Narcissus, Op. 89, was written in 1974 in memory of William Plomer. It was written for performance by Peter Pears and harpist Osian Ellis
Canticles_(Britten)
(1940–2001, C) Marjorie Pizer (1920–2016, A) Sylvia Plath (1932–1963, US/E) William Plomer (1903–1973, SA/E) Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878–1957
List of English-language poets
List_of_English-language_poets
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