Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Poetic Obituaries: Paul Roche, who died on October 30 aged 91,

was a critically acclaimed poet and novelist, and translated Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Sappho and Plautus; he also conducted a 32-year relationship with the Bloomsbury painter, Duncan Grant.

Editions of Roche's works have sold in their hundreds of thousands, and are still used as standard texts in many schools and colleges in America and Europe

from Telegraph: Paul Roche

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