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Peter Whigham is a British poet and author. He was born in Oxford, England, on 6 March 1925. He attended Oxford University, where he studied English literature and philosophy. After graduating, he worked as a teacher and lecturer in English literature and philosophy. Whigham is best known for his poetry, which has been published in numerous anthologies and journals. His work has been translated into several languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Italian. He has also written several books, including The Poetry of Peter Whigham (1975), The Poetry of Peter Whigham II (1980), and The Poetry of Peter Whigham III (1985). Whigham has received numerous awards for his work, including the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry in 1975, the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1981, and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1985. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1988. Whigham is currently retired and lives in Oxford. He is married and has two children.

Popular As Peter George Whigham
Occupation Poet
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 6 March 1925
Birthday 6 March
Birthplace Oxford, England
Date of death (1987-08-06) Santa Barbara, California, US
Died Place Santa Barbara, California, US
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1987

Whigham died on August 6, 1987, in Humboldt County, California of injuries he suffered in a car crash. He was 62 years old. He buried in Santa Barbara, California.

1969

The The Blue Winged Bee was honored by the Poetry Book Society in 1969 in England. The dust jacket and frontispiece for this book was done by artist and professor Gary Hugh Brown. Whigham's poetry appeared in several poetry anthologies, including 23 Modern Poets, Penguin Book of Love Poems, and Twenty Times in One Place.

1965

In 1965 Whigham moved to the United States after working as an actor, broadcaster, and scriptwriter for the British Broadcasting Corp. At the BBC, he coordinated the first features focusing on Pound, Santayana, and Williams. In 1968–69 he was a guest lecturer in poetry at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as was Basil Bunting, Fred Turner, and Kenneth Rexroth. His seminar classes were popular among undergraduates new to the experience of living, modern poetry. In the mid-1970s he taught a graduate poetry seminar in the Comparative Literature Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

1925

Peter George Whigham (March 6, 1925 –August 6, 1987) was an English poet and translator, widely known for his translation of the poems of Catullus published by Penguin Books in 1966. He helped popularize the writings of authors like Ezra Pound, George Santayana, and William Carlos Williams.

Whigham was born on March 6, 1925 in Oxford, England where he was largely self-educated. His parents were Robert George Murray Whigham (1903-1941) and Ellen Rose Carr (1903-1988).

1865

He worked as a gardener, a school teacher, an actor, a newspaper reporter, and a script writer. He was the grandson of General Sir Robert Whigham (1865-1950). In the 1950s, he contributed to The European, a magazine edited by Diana Mosley. In the early 1960s he moved to Italy to devote himself entirely to writing.

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