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Terence Rogers Tiller
Born:
Sept. 19, 1916, Truro, Cornwall, Eng.
Died:
Dec. 24, 1987, London (aged 71)
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Terence Tiller

British writer
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Terence Tiller (born Sept. 19, 1916, Truro, Cornwall, Eng.—died Dec. 24, 1987, London) was an English playwright, translator, and poet whose best verse is noted for its highly wrought form and intense emotional content.

Tiller taught medieval history at the University of Cambridge until 1939, when he began lecturing in English history and literature at Fuʾād I University, Cairo. From 1946 to 1976 he was employed by the BBC as a radio writer and producer.

Of his major poetry collections, The Inward Animal (1943) and especially Unarm, Eros (1947) contain his most highly acclaimed poems, noted for their strong formal pattern, heraldic imagery, and striking sensuousness. Later volumes include Reading a Medal (1957), Notes for a Myth (1968), and That Singing Mesh (1979).

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In addition to his poetry and the hundreds of radio plays and feature broadcasts he wrote for the BBC, Tiller wrote several prose pieces and edited and translated a number of books.

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