William Plomer

William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE (10 Desember 1903 – 20 September 1973) adalah seorang novelis, penyair, dan editor sastra asal Afrika Selatan dan Inggris. Ia juga menulis serangkaian libretto untuk Benjamin Britten. Beberapa puisinya ditulis dengan menggunakan nama pena Robert Pagan.

Lahir dari orangtua Inggris di Koloni Transvaal, ia pindah ke Inggris pada tahun 1929 setelah menghabiskan beberapa tahun di Jepang. Meskipun tidak sepopuler rekan-rekannya, ia diakui sebagai seorang modernis dan karyanya sangat dihargai oleh penulis lain, termasuk Virginia Woolf dan Nadine Gordimer. Ia adalah seorang homoseksual, dan setidaknya salah satu novelnya menggambarkan hubungan gay, tetapi apakah ia hidup terbuka sebagai gay sendiri tidak jelas.

Hasil karya

• 1925. Turbott Wolfe (novel)
• 1927. Notes for Poems. Hogarth Press, London (poetry)
• 1927. I Speak of Africa (short stories)
• 1929. The Family Tree. Hogarth, London (poetry)
• 1929. Paper Houses. Hogarth, London (short stories)
• 1931. Sado. Hogarth, London (novel)
• 1932. The Case is Altered (novel)
• 1932. The Fivefold Screen (poetry)
• 1933. The Child of Queen Victoria (short stories)
• 1933. Cecil Rhodes (biography)
• 1934. The Invaders (novel)
• 1936. Visiting the Caves. Cape, London (poetry)
• 1936. Ali the Lion (biography, reissued in 1970 as The Diamond of Janina)
• 1937. William Plomer (editor): Haruko Ichikawa: A Japanese Lady in Europe. Cape, London
• 1938. Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert (1870–1879)
• 1940. Selected Poems. Hogarth, London
• 1942. In a Bombed House, 1941: Elegy in Memory of Anthony Butts (poetry)
• 1943. Double Lives: An Autobiography. Cape, London.
• 1945. Curious Relations. Cape, London. under pseudonym William D'Arfey. Collaboration with Anthony Butts (memoirs of Butts's family)
• 1945. The Dorking Thigh and Other Satires (poetry)
• 1949. Four Countries. Cape, London (short stories)
• 1952. Museum Pieces (novel)
• 1955. A Shot in the Park (poetry, published in U.S. as Borderline Ballads)
• 1958. At Home: Memoirs. Cape, London.
• 1960. Collected Poems. Cape, London.
• 1960. A Choice of Ballads (poetry)
• 1966. Taste and Remember (poetry)
• 1970. Celebrations (poetry)
• 1973. Collected Poems. Cape, London (expanded edition)
• 1973. "Butterfly Ball" Cape, London (Co author with Alan Aldridge)
• 1975. The Autobiography of William Plomer. Cape, London (revision of Double Lives, he died before he could rework At Home)
• 1978. Electric Delights. Selected and introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis. Cape, London (previously uncollected pieces, including the essay "On Not Answering the Telephone")

Pranala luar

• Potret {{{name}}} di National Portrait Gallery, London
• Plomer Collection at Durham University
• "William Plomer and Japan" in Japonisme, Orientalism, Modernism: A Critical Bibliography of Japan in English-Language Verse (themargins.net)
• William Plomer di Library of Congress Authorities, dengan 87 catatanue katalog