Mile End Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
After the war, Russell studied English at Queen Mary College, London.
College Rd, Great Malvern, Malvern WR14 3DF, United Kingdom
Peter Russell was educated at Malvern College.
College Rd, Great Malvern, Malvern WR14 3DF, United Kingdom
Peter Russell was educated at Malvern College.
Mile End Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
After the war, Russell studied English at Queen Mary College, London.
(Peter Russell is at his lyrical and satirical best in the...)
Peter Russell is at his lyrical and satirical best in the Elegies of his alter ego Quintilius, a disaffected and maverick late Latin poet whose scabrous observations on the last decadent days and collapse of the Roman Empire, seen from a provincial perspective, are sharply pertinent to our own age. This enlarged edition reissues with much-uncollected material a famous modernist jeu d'esprit which gave Peter Russell his true Poetic voice - dyspeptic, witty, coruscating, and chilled by sudden apprehensions of mortality.
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1975
(The Upanishads are the oldest and clearest expression of ...)
The Upanishads are the oldest and clearest expression of the perennial philosophy that is the inner core of all the great religions. Passed down by word of mouth for five thousand years, they teach of an absolute and unified field of intelligence that underlies and permeates all creation. This divine ground is our own nature, and to bring our lives into conscious harmony with it is the ultimate purpose of human existence. This lucid translation captures both the poetry and the precision of the original, rendering accessible an extraordinary body of spiritual wisdom as never before. Speaking from the depth of the everlasting NOW, the Upanishads make the mind soar, and the heart sing and points the soul to freedom.
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1978
Peter Russell, born Irwin Peter Russell on September 16, 1921, in Bristol to Anglo-Irish parents. His mother was some years older than his father. She had inherited a considerable sum of money and was able to send her children to good schools.
Peter started at a prep school in Malvern, Worcestershire before moving up to the at Malvern College in the same town where he was an exemplary student, reading modern languages, the Classics, and the sciences. He was an avid reader of literature, writing his own poetry whenever he could.
Russell turned down a place to read natural sciences at King's College, Cambridge. In 1939, he volunteered for the Royal Artillery, and served as an intelligence officer in India and Burma, rising to the rank of major. After the war, he studied English at Queen Mary College, London. He left without taking a degree, explaining that he feared that with one he might become an academic.
From 1949 to 1956, Peter Russell was the driving force behind the periodical Nine, which published work by Ezra Pound, TS Eliot, Borges, and many others. As a publisher, Russell was responsible for the appearance of work by such writers as Boris Pasternak, Pound, and Tom Scott.
His admiration for Pound's work led him to edit a volume of critical essays, published in 1950, with a distinguished list of contributors. He was prominent in the campaign for Pound's release, in 1958, from the hospital in Washing ton DC where he had been held as insane after being charged as a traitor for his pro-Mussolini broadcasts from Italy.
From 1951 to 1963, Russell ran bookshops in Sussex, Kent, and London. Hardly a natural businessman, he was declared bankrupt in 1963, after which he moved to Berlin, and was never to live in Britain again. Between 1965 and 1977, he spent periods in Venice, the United States, Yugoslavia, and Canada.
He then moved to Tehran, to teach and study at the prestigious Imperial Academy of Philosophy. But the Iranian revolution forced his return to Italy - and the abandonment of his valuable library. In 1983, he moved to La Turbina, a remote former water-mill in the mountains between Florence and Arezzo, where he lived simply, mostly alone, and often almost without money - though he usually managed to maintain his supply of books, whisky, and cigarettes. The house contained almost no furniture, but was overflowing with books and, for some of this time, Russell benefited greatly from the assistance of his son Peter George.
The publication of "All For The Wolves" (1984) attracted a good deal of praise, but then, in 1990, a fire destroyed many of Russell's books and papers, including many letters from the literary figures he had known. Two years later, flooding did more damage.
His work was very varied in theme and form, but always full of emotion. He wrote some beautifully musical lyrics, profoundly resonant in their use of traditional symbols, in a manner learned from Yeats. Some of the best were collected in "The Golden Chain" (1970). He was a master of the sonnet, which he wrote throughout his poetic career - which began with "Picnic To The Moon" (1944); a selection appeared in "Towards An Unknown Life" (1997).
Russell's later sonnets contain a wonderful record of the physical and spiritual experiences of old age. He also wrote a number of impressive contemplative poems, many of them published together in "Elemental Discourses" (1981); the best sustain his claim, in a 1996 lecture, that "poetry, in its sublimest conception, is the language of the spirit."
One of Russell's most distinctive achievements was his invention of the late Roman poet Quintilius. In "The Elegies Of Quintilius" (1996) and "From The Apocalypse Of Quintilius" (1997), Russell "translates" the work of a nomadic Latin poet in search of truth and beauty, of God and the ideal woman.
(Peter Russell is at his lyrical and satirical best in the...)
1975(The Upanishads are the oldest and clearest expression of ...)
1978Peter was married twice. In 1951 he married Marjorie Keeling-Bloxam. In 1963 the couple divorced. His second marriage also ended in divorce: it produced his son Peter George and daughters, Sara and Kate.
