Sherard Vines

Walter Sherard Vines (1890 ? 1964) was an English writer and academic, who wrote poetry, novels and criticism.

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1890 - 1964

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He was born in Oxford and educated at Magdalen College School and New College, Oxford. He was published in Oxford Poetry, and took an academic position at Belfast University in 1914. He served in the British Army until 1917, when he was invalided out. Poems of his were included in the Sitwell Wheels anthologies.

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Oxford - Magdalen College School - New College, Oxford - Belfast University - British Army - Sitwell - Anthologies

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From 1923 for five years he taught at Keio University in Tokyo. During that period he was for a time tutor to Prince Chichibu. He contributed while there to Edmund Blunden's Oriental Literary Times. From 1929 he was professor at the University College of Hull.

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Keio University - Tokyo - Prince Chichibu - Edmund Blunden - University College of Hull

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