Career
His Poems were published in 1944 by Fortune Press. He started the small magazine Mandrake in 1946 with John Wain while at Wadham College, Oxford, subtitled the "An Oxford Review". lieutenant was published until 1957.
He was editor of Oxford Poetry in 1948.
He is known also as a translator of Russian poetry. His name is associated with the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko.