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Sisson, Charles Hubert was born on April 22, 1914 in Bristol, England. Son of Richard Percy and Ellen Minnie (Worlock) Sisson.
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From Whitehall to a sergeants' mess in India, commuter Sevenoaks to Hitler's Berlin, pre-war Paris to working-class Bristol: this is the partial autobiography of C.H.Sisson. 'On the Lookout', concentrating on Sisson's first half-century, will surprise the readers of his poems and essays both by its candour and reticence. it is the story of a poet's exposure to the history of our time as student, soldier, civil servant, novelist, critic and translator, and the development of his dissident English perspectives. It casts new light on the literary history of the 1930s and the 1960s, when Sisson was part of the X group. He gave up writing poetry at the age of 20, and started again on a troopship at the age of 28. 'On the Lookout' reveals a man pursued by rather than pursuing poetry. In the first of the book's four parts (written in 1964) Sisson is Under Secretary ay the Ministry of Labour. Reversing chronology, he follows himself back to the War. part two, written immediately after the war, gives a vivid picture of India seen through the yes of one of the British Other Ranks. The third part resumes the reverse narrative, tracing Sisson back from London to Paris and Nazi Germany, undergraduate days at Bristol, childhood and birth in 1941 in what has since become the Bristol Rover's Supporter's Club. The book ends with a 'Letter from the Present'.
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Sisson, Charles Hubert was born on April 22, 1914 in Bristol, England. Son of Richard Percy and Ellen Minnie (Worlock) Sisson.
Bachelor in Philosophy and England Literature with honors, University Bristol, England, 1934. Postgraduate, University Berlin, 1935. Postgraduate, University Sorbonne, Paris, 1936.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Bristol, 1980.
Assistant principal Department Employment, Ministry Labour, London, 1936—1942, principal, 1945—1953, assistant secretary, 1953—1962, under secretary, 1962—1968, assistant under secretary state, 1968—1971. Director, Occupation, Safety & Health Department Employment, 1971—1973.
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Author essays, poems, collected poems. An Asiatic Romance, 1953, Versions and Perversions of Heine, 1955, Poems, The Spirit of British Administration and Some European Comparisons, 1959, Twenty-One Poems, 1960, The London Zoo: Poems, 1961, Numbers, Art and Action, Christopher Homm, 1965, Catullus (translated), 1966, The Disincarnation: or, How the Flesh Became Word and Dwelt Among Us, 1967, Essays, 1967, Metamorphoses: Poems, 1968, Roman Poems, 1968, English Poetry 1900-1950: An Assessment, 1971, The Case of Walter Bagehot, 1972, In the Trojan Ditch: Collected Poems and Selected Translations, 1974, The Corridor (translated), The Poetic Art by Horace (translated), 1975, Lucretius (translated), 1976, Anchises, 1976, Selected Poems of Swift (educated), 1977, Hardy's Jude the Obscure (educated), The Avoidance of Literature, 1978, Selected Contes, by La Fontaine (translated), 1979, The Divine Comedy of Dante (translated), 1980, Phillip Mairet's Autobiographical and Other Papers (educated), Selected Poems, 1981, Anglican Essays, 1983, Collected Poems 1943-1983, 1984, The Aeneid of Virgil (translated), 1986, Racine's Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah, God Bless Karl Marx, 1987, On the Look-out: A Partial Autobiography, 1989, In Two Minds: Guesses at other writers, 1990, Antidotes, 1991, English Perspectives, 1991, Is There a Church of England, What and Who, 1994, Selected Poems, 1995, Collected Translations, 1996, Collected Poems, 1998.
Served with British Army, 1942-1945, India. Fellow Royal Society Literature.
Married Nora Gilbertson (deceased 2003), August 19, 1937. Children: Janet Louth, Hilary Cook.