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Paul Hugh Howard Potts (19 July 1911 – 26 August 1990), a British-born poet who lived in British Columbia in his youth,〔Paul Potts, ''Dante Called You Beatrice'', Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960〕〔Potts is often called a Canadian, for example by Ronald Caplan in ''George Orwell's Friend'' which has him "born in British Columbia", but other sources - including the ''Times'' obituary - give his birthplace as Datchet in the UK.〕 was the author of ''Dante Called You Beatrice'' (1960), a memoir of unrequited love.〔Paul Potts, ''Dante Called You Beatrice'', Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960〕 Born in Datchet, Berkshire〔Datchet was at that time in Buckinghamshire〕 to (Arthur George) Howard Potts (1869-1918), who had emigrated to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where he was a partner in a bakery and confectionery business,〔British Columbia Gazette, 1909, pg 3070〕 and his Irish wife Julia Helen Kavanagh (also recorded as Cavanagh),〔Paul Potts, ''Dante Called You Beatrice'', Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960〕 Potts was educated in Canada, England (at Stonyhurst until the age of sixteen〔Dante Called You Beatrice, Paul Potts, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960, pg 25〕) and Italy (at a Jesuit college in Florence),〔The Visva-bharati Quarterly, volume 31, issue 2, 1965, pg 131〕 but from the early 1930s he lived in London. He frequented the Soho-Fitzrovia area where he would sell broadsheet copies of his poetry in the streets and pubs.〔"Paul Potts - Obituary", ''The Times'', London, 29 August 1990〕〔Peter Stothard, ("Soho, ring-marked and a little soiled" ), TLS blog, 2 March 2008, retrieved 7 February 2013〕 Arthur Potts's father, Dr Walter Jeffery Potts (1837-1898),〔Imperial Vancouver Island: Who Was Who, 1850-1950, J. F. Bosher, 2010, pg 134〕 had married Julia, daughter of Sir Thomas Branthwaite Beevor, 3rd Baronet;〔A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Sir Bernard Burke, 31st Edition, volume 1, 1869, pg 88〕 many descendants with the name 'Beevor-Potts' live in Canada.〔Imperial Vancouver Island: Who Was Who, 1850-1950, J. F. Bosher, 2010, pg 135〕〔Dante Called You Beatrice, Paul Potts, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960, pg 28〕〔The Tormented Prince, J. Leigh Hirst, Brimstone Press, 2012, pg 1〕 Among Potts's literary friends were George Orwell and the English poet George Barker.〔Taylor, D. J., ''Orwell: The Life'', Henry Holt and Company, 2003, ''passim''〕〔Meyers, Jeffrey (ed.), Introduction to ''George Orwell'', Routledge, 1975, p.20〕〔Crick, Bernard. ''George Orwell: A Life'', Penguin, 1982, ''passim''〕 Potts's memoir of Orwell, "Don Quixote on a Bicycle", appeared in ''The London Magazine'' in 1957〔Rodden, John, ''George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation'', Oxford University Press, 1989, rev. 2002, pp 128-129〕〔Rodden, John, ''The Unexamined Orwell'', University of Texas Press, 2011, p.222〕 and became a chapter of ''Dante Called You Beatrice''. His 1948 essay “The World of George Barker” appeared in ''Poetry Quarterly''.〔Warren, Richard, ("Paul Potts on ‘The World of George Barker’" ), nd, blog post; retrieved 12 February 2013〕 In late middle-age, Potts was '...balding' with 'a stutter that he mixed with rapid blinking and an amused chuckle as he started a sentence', eventually becoming a dissolute figure 'barred from Soho pubs'.〔The Arms of the Infinite: Elizabeth Smart and George Barker, Christopher Barker, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010, pg 181〕 Potts died in 1990 of smoke inhalation from a fire in his bedroom; he had been house-bound for some years by this time.〔The Arms of the Infinite: Elizabeth Smart and George Barker, Christopher Barker, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010, pg 181〕 ==Bibliography== *(1940) ''A Poet's Testament'', with drawings by Cliff Bayliss and Scott MacGregor, foreword by Hugh MacDiarmid *(1944) ''Instead of a Sonnet'' (enlarged 1978) *(1960) ''Dante Called You Beatrice'' *(1970) ''To Keep A Promise'' *(1973) ''Invitation to a Sacrament'' *(2006) Ronald Caplan (ed.), ''George Orwell's Friend: Selected Writings by Paul Potts'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Potts (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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