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38-466: Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (29 June 1912 – 23 September 1970), better known as John Gawsworth (and also sometimes known as T. I. F. Armstrong), was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies , both of poetry and of short stories. He also used the pseudonym Orpheus Scrannel (alluding to the "scrannel pipes" in Milton's Lycidas ). He declared himself king of the unrecognized micronation of

76-582: A certain dilution) when it achieved widespread recognition. In this model, which derives from Chinese tradition, the object of compiling an anthology was to preserve the best of a form, and cull the rest. In Malaysia , an anthology (or antologi in Malay ) is a collection of syair , sajak (or modern prose), proses , drama scripts, and pantuns . Notable anthologies that are used in secondary schools include Sehijau Warna Daun , Seuntai Kata Untuk Dirasa , Anak Bumi Tercinta , Anak Laut and Kerusi . In

114-566: A literary prize, the Premio Reino de Redonda to be judged by the dukes and duchesses. The jury was of extraordinary prominence, comprising the dukes mentioned below and other figures such as Francis Ford Coppola . In addition to prize money, the winners, listed below, received a duchy: Marías died of pneumonia caused by Covid-19 in Madrid on 11 September 2022, at the age of 70. The Spanish novelist Eduardo Mendoza remembered him as

152-429: A more flexible medium than the collection of a single poet's work, and indeed rang innumerable changes on the idea as a way of marketing poetry, publication in an anthology (in the right company) became at times a sought-after form of recognition for poets. The self-definition of movements, dating back at least to Ezra Pound 's efforts on behalf of Imagism , could be linked on one front to the production of an anthology of

190-683: A roof over his head in London in 1934 (MacDiarmid returned the compliment in When the Rat-Race Is Over; an essay in honour of the fiftieth birthday of John Gawsworth (1962)). At this time he was very much involved in compiling (usually anonymously) story collections, generally of the fiction of the supernatural . Poetry collections of this time were Lyrics to Kingcup (1932), Mishka and Madeleine. A Poem Sequence for Marcia (1932), Poems 1930–1932 (1936), New Poems 1939. Later he published through

228-415: A sad day for Spanish literature. In 2005–2006, an English version of his column, "La Zona Fantasma", appeared in the monthly magazine The Believer . After having been awarded the title, King of Redonda, he was also known as Xavier I. and, from 2000 onwards, Marías operated a small publishing house under the name of Reino de Redonda . Its first book of the publishing house was La mujer de Huguenin by

266-807: The Cairo poets , he made a more serious name for himself, being part of the Salamander group. Later he returned to a picturesque eccentricity as a Fitzrovian . His Collected Poems appeared in 1949. A later volume is Toreros (1990). The Known Signatures anthology (reactionary, quite literally) was prompted by the Michael Roberts New Country collection. The Edwardian Poetry Book One (1936) (edited anonymously) and Neo-Georgian Poetry 1936–1937 (edited anonymously by Gawsworth ) are extraordinary for their retrospective vision. As literary executor to M. P. Shiel , Armstrong also inherited

304-560: The Greek Anthology . Florilegium , a Latin derivative for a collection of flowers, was used in medieval Europe for an anthology of Latin proverbs and textual excerpts. Shortly before anthology had entered the language, English had begun using florilegium as a word for such a collection. The Palatine Anthology , discovered in the Palatine Library , Heidelberg in 1606, is a collection of Greek poems and epigrams that

342-853: The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1997), the International Nonino Prize (2011), and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2011). Marías studied philosophy and literature at the Complutense University of Madrid before going on to teach at several universities, including his alma mater, universities in Oxford and Venice, and Wellesley College in Massachusetts . In 1997, he

380-657: The Kingdom of Redonda in 1947, and started calling himself King Juan I. Armstrong grew up in Colville Gardens , Notting Hill , and at number 40 Royal Crescent , Holland Park , London. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School . As a very young man he moved in London literary circles championing traditional verse and writing as opposed to modernism . He ran the Twyn Barlwm Press , a small press publishing some well-known poets, its title inspired by

418-679: The Richards Press . He met and befriended the young Lawrence Durrell in 1932, when Gawsworth was living in Denmark Street . He made friends as well as enemies ( Dylan Thomas , George Woodcock ) throughout literary London. During World War II , he served, under the alias T E Shavian, in the Royal Air Force as an aircraftman in North Africa (T. E. Shaw being the postwar name adopted by T. E. Lawrence ). As one of

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456-545: The Battle Think on Me ( Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, 1994). In addition to his novels, he also published three collections of short stories and various essays. As one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, his books have been translated into forty-six languages and sold close to nine million copies internationally. He received several awards for his work, such as the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1995),

494-586: The English language in the 17th century, from the Greek word, ἀνθολογία ( anthologic , literally "a collection of blossoms", from ἄνθος , ánthos , flower), a reference to one of the earliest known anthologies, the Garland ( Στέφανος , stéphanos ), the introduction to which compares each of its anthologized poets to a flower. That Garland by Meléagros of Gadara formed the kernel for what has become known as

532-729: The Horizon ) was an adventure story about an expedition to Antarctica. His translations included work by Updike , Hardy , Conrad , Nabokov , Faulkner , James , Stevenson , and Browne . In 1979, he won the Spanish national award for translation for his version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy . Between 1983 and 1985, Marías lectured in Spanish literature and translation at the University of Oxford . In 1986, Marías published El hombre sentimental ( The Man of Feeling ), and in 1989 he published Todas las almas ( All Souls ), which

570-640: The Spanish language. His first literary employment consisted of translating Dracula scripts for his maternal uncle, Jesús Franco. Marías began writing in earnest at an early age. "The Life and Death of Marcelino Iturriaga", one of the short stories in While the Women are Sleeping (2010), was written when he was just 14. He ran away from home to write his first novel and went to live with his uncle in Paris. He began writing Los dominios del lobo ( The Dominions of

608-625: The United States, where his father taught at various institutions, including Yale University and Wellesley College . His mother died when Javier was 26 years old. He was educated at the Colegio Estudio in Madrid. After having returned to Madrid, Marías studied philosophy and literary sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid from 1968 to 1973. From the 1970s onwards, he was involved in translating English literary works into

646-497: The Wolf ), at the age of 17. It was about an American family and according to him, it was written in the morning hours. The novel is dedicated to the Spanish author Juan Benet , who managed to compel the publisher Edhasa  [ es ] to print the book, and to Vicente Molina Foix , who provided him with the title. In later years he considered himself an "evening-time" writer. The novel Travesía del horizonte ( Voyage Along

684-493: The World's Greatest Diarists , published in 2000, anthologises four centuries of diary entries into 365 'days'. [REDACTED] Media related to Anthologies at Wikimedia Commons Javier Mar%C3%ADas Javier Marías Franco (20 September 1951 – 11 September 2022) was a Spanish author, translator, and columnist. Marías published fifteen novels, including A Heart So White ( Corazón tan blanco, 1992 ) and Tomorrow in

722-569: The ashes of M. P. Shiel "in a biscuit tin on his mantelpiece, dropping a pinch as condiment into the food of any particularly honoured guest". Anthology In book publishing , an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs, or related fiction/non-fiction excerpts by different authors. There are also thematic and genre-based anthologies. Complete collections of works are often called " complete works " or " opera omnia " ( Latin equivalent). The word entered

760-427: The first King of Redondo and author M. P. Shiel . Marías's novel, Todas las almas ( All Souls ), included a portrayal of the poet John Gawsworth , who was also the third King of Redonda . Although the fate of this monarchy after the death of Gawsworth is contested, the portrayal by Marías so affected the "reigning" king, Jon Wynne-Tyson , that he abdicated and left the throne to Marías in 1997. This course of events

798-484: The first edition of Arthur Quiller Couch 's Oxford Book of English Verse (1900). In East Asian tradition, an anthology was a recognized form of compilation of a given poetic form . It was assumed that there was a cyclic development: any particular form, say the tanka in Japan , would be introduced at one point in history, be explored by masters during a subsequent time, and finally be subject to popularisation (and

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836-517: The first part of a trilogy which was his most ambitious literary project. The first volume is dominated by a translator, an elderly don based on an actual professor emeritus of Spanish studies at Oxford University, Sir Peter Russell . The second volume, Tu rostro mañana 2. Baile y sueño ( Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream ), was published in 2004. In 2007, Marías completed the final installment, Tu rostro mañana 3. Veneno y sombra y adiós ( Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell ). In 2009,

874-417: The like-minded. Also, whilst not connected with poetry, publishers have produced collective works of fiction and non-fiction from a number of authors and used the term anthology to describe the collective nature of the text. These have been in a number of subjects, including Erotica , edited by Mitzi Szereto , and American Gothic Tales edited by Joyce Carol Oates . The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of

912-779: The literary critics and won the Spanish Critics Award . Marías and Costa were joint winners of the 1997 International Dublin Literary Award . In his 1994 novel, Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí , the protagonist is a ghostwriter. The protagonists of the novels written since 1986 are all interpreters or translators of one kind or another, based on his own experience as a translator and teacher of translation at Oxford University. Of these protagonists, Marías wrote, "They are people who are renouncing their own voices." In 2002 Marías published Tu rostro mañana 1. Fiebre y lanza ( Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear ),

950-610: The mountain Twyn Barlwm in South Wales , beloved by one of his literary idols Arthur Machen . Machen was one of the surviving writers of the 1890s he admired and befriended. Gawsworth's longest piece of written work was a biography of Machen, but he could find no publisher for it in the thirties. It was finally published by Tartarus Press in 2005. Other writers Gawsworth admired were Edgar Jepson and M. P. Shiel , whose literary executor he would later become. In 1931 he had

988-476: The poem In Winter by W. H. Davies privately printed in a limited edition of 290 numbered copies, illustrated by Edward Carrick and all individually signed by Davies. A further special limited edition of 15 were printed on handmade paper and also hand-coloured by Carrick. Three companion titles appeared in similar editions at the same time: In Spring by Edith Sitwell , In Summer by Edmund Blunden and In Autumn by Herbert Palmer . He gave Hugh MacDiarmid

1026-460: The protagonist of Your Face Tomorrow was given a similar biography ). His mother was the writer Dolores Franco Manera  [ es ] . Marías was the fourth of five sons. Two of his siblings were art historian Fernando  [ es ] and film critic and economist Miguel  [ es ] . He was the nephew and cousin of, respectively, filmmakers Jesús "Jess" Franco and Ricardo Franco . Marías spent parts of his childhood in

1064-518: The throne of the Kingdom of Redonda styling himself H.M. Juan I. The independent publisher Jon Wynne-Tyson became Gawsworth's literary executor in 1970, also becoming H.M. Juan II but Wynne-Tyson "abdicated" in favour of the Spanish novelist and translator Javier Marías — H.M. Xavier I – who became both Shiel's and Gawsworth's literary executor. According to John Sutherland's Lives of the Novelists , "the excessively minor poet John Gawsworth" kept

1102-453: The trilogy was published as one single volume. It was followed by the novel Los enamoramientos ( The Infatuations ) in 2011, a story about a woman drawn into a murder mystery. The novel won the state-run National novel prize , but Marías rejected the award saying he did not want to be indebted to a government of any kind. He also was a regular contributor to El País , whose editor-in-chief Pepa Bueno lamented his death and called it

1140-509: The twentieth century, anthologies became an important part of poetry publishing for a number of reasons. For English poetry , the Georgian poetry series was trend-setting; it showed the potential success of publishing an identifiable group of younger poets marked out as a 'generation'. It was followed by numerous collections from the 'stable' of some literary editor, or collated from a given publication, or labelled in some fashion as 'poems of

1178-492: The year'. Academic publishing also followed suit, with the continuing success of the Quiller-Couch Oxford Book of English Verse encouraging other collections not limited to modern poetry. Not everyone approved. Robert Graves and Laura Riding published their Pamphlet Against Anthologies in 1928, arguing that they were based on commercial rather than artistic interests. The concept of 'modern verse'

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1216-473: Was awarded the title of King of the Kingdom of Redonda by its predecessor Jon Wynne-Tyson for his understanding of the kingdom and for mentioning the story of one of its previous kings, John Gawsworth , in his novel All Souls ( Todas las almas, 1989). Javier Marías Franco was born in Madrid on 20 September 1951. His father was the philosopher Julián Marías , who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco (the father of

1254-462: Was based on the lost 10th Century Byzantine collection of Constantinus Cephalas, which in turn was based on older anthologies. In The Middle Ages, European collections of florilegia became popular, bringing together extracts from various Christian and pagan philosophical texts. These evolved into commonplace books and miscellanies , including proverbs, quotes, letters, poems and prayers. Songes and Sonettes , usually called Tottel's Miscellany ,

1292-1531: Was chronicled in his "false novel," Negra espalda del tiempo ( Dark Back of Time ). The book was inspired by the reception of Todas las almas by many people who, falsely according to Marías, believed they were the source of the characters in Todas las almas . After "taking the throne" of Redonda , Marías began a publishing imprint named Reino de Redonda ("Kingdom of Redonda"). Marías conferred many titles during his reign upon people he liked, including upon Pedro Almodóvar (Duke of Trémula), António Lobo Antunes (Duke of Cocodrilos), John Ashbery (Duke of Convexo), Pierre Bourdieu (Duke of Desarraigo), William Boyd (Duke of Brazzaville), Michel Braudeau (Duke of Miranda), A. S. Byatt (Duchess of Morpho Eugenia), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Duke of Tigres), Pietro Citati (Duke of Remonstranza), Francis Ford Coppola (Duke of Megalópolis), Agustín Díaz Yanes (Duke of Michelín), Roger Dobson (Duke of Bridaespuela), Frank Gehry (Duke of Nervión), Francis Haskell (Duke of Sommariva), Eduardo Mendoza (Duke of Isla Larga), Ian Michael (Duke of Bernal), Orhan Pamuk (Duke of Colores), Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Duke of Corso), Francisco Rico (Duke of Parezzo), Sir Peter Russell (Duke of Plazatoro), Fernando Savater (Duke of Caronte), W. G. Sebald (Duke of Vértigo), Jonathan Coe (Duke of Prunes), Luis Antonio de Villena (Duke of Malmundo), and Juan Villoro (Duke of Nochevieja). Marías created

1330-474: Was fostered by the appearance of the phrase in titles such as the Faber & Faber anthology by Michael Roberts in 1936, and the very different William Butler Yeats Oxford Book of Modern Verse of the same year. In the 1960s The Mersey Sound anthology of Liverpool poets became a bestseller, plugging into the countercultural attitudes of teenagers. Since publishers generally found anthology publication

1368-475: Was set at Oxford University. The Spanish film director Gracia Querejeta released El Último viaje de Robert Rylands ( Robert Rylands' Last Journey ), adapted from Todas las almas , in 1996. His 1992 novel Corazón tan blanco is centered on Juan, a translator for the United Nations (UN), and its English version A Heart So White was translated by Margaret Jull Costa . It was received well by

1406-483: Was the first of the great ballad collections, responsible for the ballad revival in English poetry that became a significant part of the Romantic movement. William Enfield 's The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces was published in 1774 and was a mainstay of 18th Century schoolrooms. Important nineteenth century anthologies included Palgrave's Golden Treasury (1861), Edward Arber 's Shakespeare Anthology (1899) and

1444-495: Was the first printed anthology of English poetry. It was published by Richard Tottel in 1557 in London and ran to many editions in the sixteenth century. A widely read series of political anthologies, Poems on Affairs of State , began its publishing run in 1689, finishing in 1707. In Britain, one of the earliest national poetry anthologies to appear was The British Muse (1738), compiled by William Oldys . Thomas Percy 's influential Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765),

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