Henry Treece
Henry Treece 1912-66, English poet and novelist. He served as an intelligence officer in the Royal Air Force during World War II, after which he taught school for many years. He is noted chiefly for his poetry, which is characterized by precise observation and intense, vivid imagery. Among his works are Towards a Personal Armageddon (1940) and The Exiles (1952), volumes of poetry, and the novels The Dark Island (1952) and The Green Man (1966).
Bibliography: See biography by M. Fisher et al. (1969).
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Can you write the story of the year? Here's your chance to win pounds 2,000 and have your story published ...
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/30/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Biggles, or Just William, in red cloth editions from the Thirties and Forties, smelling faintly of must and Empire; then Henry Treece's Viking stories, in a smart cardboard box-set, or Rosemary Sutcliffe, or the Narnia books, with their haunting drawings...
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Multifamily acquisition: A Look at Important Real Estate Transactions. (Real Deals).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Arkansas Business; 5/6/2002; ; 658 words
; ...mortgage of $296,000 held by Pulaski Bank & Trust of Little Rock. Scott bought the property for $99,000 two years ago from Geoffrey Treece. Treece purchased it for $70,000 inJune 1998 from TH Holding Co., led by Henry Treece.
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Obituary: Faith Jaques
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/7/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...and intelligent interpreter; other writers who benefited from her skills included Philippa Pearce, Allan Ahlberg, and Henry Treece. Leon Garfield was another beneficiary, with Jaques's illustrations for his London Apprentice series (1976-78) among...
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A fine scheme
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 8/18/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...feistiness recedes for a moment, and we're back in her childhood's library at her favourite shelf , the "Authors, TR" with Henry Treece and Geoffrey Treace, both of whose titles she wrote down, sought out and worked her way through. "Mr Henry and my Geoffrey...
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The secret life of J R R Tolkien The Lord of the Rings is the product of a magnificent imagination. Not that you'd have known it from the author's life, says
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/21/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...prompted him to print the words "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit..." No other writer - not CS Lewis, not Henry Treece, not Rosemary Sutcliff - meant more to me as a child than John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Even now, without turning to the...
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From rhyming couplets to Rastafarians... the Midlands Wall of Fame; LITERATURE: Readers invited to add their choices to list of local literary talent.(News)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England); 11/9/2005; 700+ words
; ...Pargeter (novelist Shropshire) William Shenstone (Halesowen Poet) Meera Syall (Black Country contemporary novelist) Henry Treece (historical novels for children from Wednesbury) P G Wodehouse (Shropshire) Stanley Weyman (Shropshire historical romance...
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Architects save Dylan's old home and turn it into a hotel.
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 4/16/2009; 565 words
; ...the property between 1938 and 1940. During that time its list of distinguished guests included TS Eliot, Arthur Miller, Henry Treece, Veronica Sibthorp and Vernon Watkin. Bought for pounds 232,000 at auction in July 2007 the Milsom family were granted...
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Martin loves living a life of slime; Fungus the bogeyman sunDAY, bbc1, 5.55pm
Newspaper article from: Evening Times; 12/4/2004; 700+ words
; ...Martin's own childhood reading was a lot less slimy. "I read the CS Lewis' Narnia books, and there was a guy called Henry Treece who wrote fantastic Viking stories, which were encouraged because they had some historical content." He's looking forward...
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The rimbaud of cwndonkin drive
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 12/16/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...magazines and reviews. These men, half or wholly forgotten, include the generous Richard Church, Keidrych Rhys, Glyn Jones, Henry Treece, D. S. Savage, as well as Julian Symons and Geoffrey Grigson, two men as mean and envious as any. Treece wrote the...
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Multifamily flip. (Real Deals).(apartment sold)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Arkansas Business; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; A 24-unit apartment complex in downtown Little Rock sold in successive deals. Center Rock Land LLC, led by Henry Treece, acquired Scott Street Apartments at 2301 Scott St. for $238,000. The seller is Nigerian Professionals in Arkansas...
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Henry Treece
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Henry Treece 1912-66, English poet and novelist. He served as an intelligence officer in the Royal Air Force during World War II, after...
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New Apocalypse, the
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...of the New Apocalypse (1941), edited by Hendry and Henry Treece (1911–66), with an introduction by George...Crown and the Sickle (1945), also edited by Hendry and Treece. They described themselves as ‘anticerebral...
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Boudicca
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...1618), a ballad by William Cowper (1782), a poem by Tennyson, and the popular novel Red Queen , White Queen by Henry Treece (London, 1958). See the historical studies: Graham Webster, Boudica: The British Revolt Against Rome (1978...
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Shaw, Robert
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Hessler) 1966 A Man for All Seasons (Zinnemann) (as King Henry VIII) 1968 Custer of the West (Good Day for Fighting ) (Siodmak...Frankenheimer) (as Kabakov); The Deep (Yates) (as Romer Treece) 1978 Force Ten from Navarone (Hamilton) (as Mallory) 1979...
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