Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Peter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL, (16 May 1931, Ruislip "“ 1 February 2000, Frampton-on-Severn), Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford (1984"“1989) was a poet, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic. Levi was born in Ruislip, Middlesex. The family of his father (Herbert Simon Levi) came from Istanbul and that of his mother (Edith Mary Tigar) was English. His mother was a devout Roman Catholic and his Jewish father converted to that religion; their three children all entered religious orders. He was educated in private Catholic establishments starting at Prior Park near Bath, run by the Christian Brothers. When he was 14 Oscar Wilde had become his literary idol. Wilde had said that the Greek text of the Gospels was the most beautiful book in the world, so a school with more Greek was demanded and he changed schools to Beaumont College, a Jesuit school in Old Windsor, Berkshire. While at...

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This depicts working ideas for Frog Pond Plop, later realized in a different form as Opening Number No.6, 1965 and is stofred in the drawing binder. The typing of this work is stored in the typing binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.