C. A. Trypanis

Constantine Athanasius Trypanis was born in Greece in 1909 and studied law and literature at the University of Athens, gaining a doctorate in 1937 and becoming a reader in 1939. In 1947 he and his wife Aliki came to Oxford where, as Bywater and Sotheby professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek, he was based in Exeter College.

Trypanis was a prolific translator of Greek poetry and plays but was also a poet in his own right. When he settled in England he began to attend the poetry readings held at the London home of George Sutherland Fraser and it was here that he met another poet, Ian Fletcher. Trypanis referred to Fletcher as the master and to himself as the pupil and the two men continued a literary friendship for some years. As time went on Trypanis's work was published and he began a poetry circle of his own in Oxford while Fletcher came to Reading University as a lecturer in English Literature.

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