F. T. Prince

Frank Templeton Prince (September 13 1912 ? August 7 2003) was a British poet and academic, known generally for the 1942 poem Soldiers Bathing which has been frequently included in anthologies.

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September 13 - 1912 - August 7 - 2003 - Anthologies

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He was born in Kimberley, South Africa. His father Harry Prinz was Dutch-Jewish, his mother Scottish. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College there, then Balliol College, Oxford. He had a visiting position at Princeton University. In World War II he was involved in intelligence work.

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Kimberley - South Africa - Dutch - Jew - Scottish - Balliol College, Oxford - Princeton University - World War II

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He married in 1943, and took an academic position after the war at Southampton University, where he settled. In the mid-1970s, he taught at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.

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Southampton University - University of the West Indies - Jamaica

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In work such as the Afterword on Rupert Brooke his interest in the metrical ideas of Robert Bridges is evident.

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