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Peter Tchad Tigar Levi, né le à Ruislip et mort à Frampton-on-Severn (en) le , est poète, archéologue, jésuite de 1948 à 1977, écrivain voyageur, biographe, universitaire, auteur et critique anglais. Il fut professeur de poésie à l'université d'Oxford (1984-1989)[1].
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De père juif originaire d'Istanbul et de mère anglaise, il fut éduqué dans la foi catholique. A 17 ans il décide de se faire prêtre et rentre chez les Jésuites. En 1977 néanmoins il abandonne la vocation de prêtre et se marie. Commence alors une longue carrière académique faite de voyages et donnant lieu à de nombreuses publications en tout genre.
Ses ouvrages poétiques
- 1960: The Gravel Ponds. London: Andre Deutsch.
- 1962: Water, Rock and Sand. London: Andre Deutsch.
- 1965: The Shearwaters. Clive Allison (Harlequin Poets). In Longer Contemporary Poems (ed. David Wright, 1966). Penguin Books. (ISBN 978-0140420876)
- 1966: Fresh Water, Sea Water. London: Black Raven Press.
- 1968: Ruined Abbeys. Northwood: Anvil Press.
- 1968: Pancakes for the Queen of Babylon. Northwood: Anvil Press.
- 1970: Ο τόνος της φωνής του Σεφέρη (Mr Seferis' Tone of Voice).
- 1971: Death is a Pulpit. London: Anvil Press. (ISBN 0-900977-69-8).
- 1971: Life is a Platform. London: Anvil Press. (ISBN 0-900977-66-3).
- 1973: in Penguin Modern Poets vol 22. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
- 1976: Collected Poems, 1955–1975. London: Anvil Press. (ISBN 0-85646-022-2).
- 1977: The Noise Made by Poems. London: Anvil Press. (ISBN 0-85646-026-5)
- 1978: Five ages. London: Anvil Press. (ISBN 0-85646-036-2)
- 1979: Comfort at Fifty for my brother. Pamphlet.
- 1980?: Music of dark tones. (With an engraving by Simon Brett.) Marlborough: Paulinus Press.
- 1981: Private Ground. London: Anvil Press. (ISBN 0-85646-080-X).
- 1983: The Echoing Green: Three Elegies. London: Anvil Press. (ISBN 0-85646-111-3).
- 1985: Shakespeare's Birthday. London: Anvil Press. (ISBN 0-85646-142-3)
- 1989: Shadow and Bone: Poems 1981–1988. London: Anvil Press. (ISBN 0-85646-211-X).
- 1994: The Rags of Time. London: Anvil Press. (ISBN 0-85646-258-6).
- 1997: Reed Music. London: Anvil Press. (ISBN 0-85646-279-9).
- 2001: Viriditas. London: Anvil Press. (ISBN 0-85646-331-0).
Récits de voyage
- 1980: The Hill of Kronos. Collins. (ISBN 0-00-216162-1).
- 1984: The Light Garden of the Angel King: Journeys in Afghanistan. Harmondsworth: Penguin. (ISBN 0-14-009525-X)
- 1996: A Bottle in the Shade: a Journey in the Western Peloponnese. London: Sinclair-Stevenson. (ISBN 1-85619-588-0).
Ouvrages sur la Grèce et l'Antiquité
- Levi, Peter (1980). Atlas of the Greek world. Oxford: Phaidon. (ISBN 0-7148-2044-X).
- Levi, Peter and Porter, Eliot (1981). The Greek World. London: Aurum. (ISBN 0-906053-24-2)
- Levi, Peter (1985). A History of Greek Literature. Harmondsworth: Viking (Penguin). (ISBN 0-670-80100-3).
- Brewster, Harry (1997). The River Gods of Greece: Myths and Mountain Waters in the Hellenic World. London: I.B. Tauris. (ISBN 1-86064-207-1). (Preface by Peter Levi).
Biographies et autres ouvrages de littérature
- Levi, Peter (1961). Beaumont, 1861–1961. London: Andre Deutsch.
- Pope, Alexander. Ed. Peter Levi (1974). Pope. Selected by Peter Levi. Harmondsworth: Penguin. (ISBN 0-14-042174-2).
- Levi, Peter (1983). The Flutes of Autumn. (Autobiography). London: Harvill. (ISBN 0-00-216246-6).
- Boswell, James, and Johnson, Samuel. Ed. Peter Levi (1984). A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Harmondsworth: Penguin. (ISBN 0-14-043221-3).
- Levi, Peter (1988). The life and times of William Shakespeare. London: Macmillan. (ISBN 0-333-43584-2).
- Levi, Peter (1988). A Private Commission: new verses by Shakespeare. London: Macmillan. (ISBN 0-333-47655-7).
- Levi, Peter (1989). Goodbye to the Art of Poetry. London: Anvil Press. (ISBN 0-85646-212-8).
- Levi, Peter (1990). Boris Pasternak. London: Hutchinson. (ISBN 0-09-173886-5).
- Levi, Peter (1993). Tennyson. Macmillan. (ISBN 0-333-52205-2).
- Levi, Peter (1995). Edward Lear: a biography. London: Macmillan. (ISBN 0-333-58804-5).
- Levi, Peter (1996). Eden Renewed: the public and private life of John Milton. London: Macmillan. (ISBN 0-333-62071-2).
- Levi, Peter (1997). Horace: a life. London: Duckworth (2001). (ISBN 0-7156-3136-5).
- Levi, Peter (1998). Virgil: his life and times. London: Duckworth. (ISBN 0-7156-2833-X)
Traductions
- Yevtushenko, Yevgeny. Trans. Peter Levi and Robin Milner-Gulland (1966). Poems: chosen by the author.London: Collins and Harvill.
- Pausanias. Trans. Peter Levi (1971). Guide to Greece (2 vols: Central and Southern Greece). Harmondsworth: Penguin. (ISBN 0-14-044226-X)
- The Bible. Trans. Peter Levi (1976). The Psalms. Harmondsworth: Penguin. (ISBN 0-14-044319-3).
- Pavlopoulos, George. Trans. Peter Levi (1977). The cellar. London: Anvil Press. (ISBN 0-85646-027-3).
- Papadiamantis, Alexandros. Trans. Peter Levi (1983). The murderess. London: Writers and Readers. (ISBN 0-904613-94-1)
- Unknown. Trans. Anne Pennington and Peter Levi (1984). Marko the Prince: Serbo-Croat heroic songs. London: Duckworth. (ISBN 0-7156-1715-X).
- The Bible. Trans. Peter Levi (1985). The Holy Gospel of John. Worthing: Churchman. (ISBN 1-85093-027-9).
- de Courcel, Martine. Trans. Peter Levi (1988). Tolstoy: the ultimate reconciliation. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. (ISBN 0-684-18569-5).
- The Bible. Trans. Peter Levi (1992). The Revelation of John. London: Kyle Cathie. (ISBN 1-85626-052-6).
- Papadiamantis, Alexandros. Trans. Peter Levi (1995). The murderess. London: Loizou. (ISBN 0-9521246-0-2).
Ouvrages traitant de la religion
- The Bible. Compiled. Peter Levi (1974). The English Bible, 1534–1859. London: Constable. (ISBN 0-09-459600-X).
- Levi, Peter ed. (1984). The Penguin Book of English Christian Verse. Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN Link0140422927.
- Levi, Peter (1987). The Frontiers of Paradise: a study of monks and monasteries. London: Collins Harvill. (ISBN 0-00-272513-4).
- Bernard, Bruce and Lloyd, Christopher (1987). The Queen Of Heaven – A Selection of Paintings of the Virgin Mary. London: Macdonald Orbis. (Introduction by Peter Levi).
Articles et conférences
- Levi, Peter (1975). John Clare and Thomas Hardy. University of London: The Athlone Press. (ISBN 0-485-16210-5)
- Levi, Peter (1975). In Memory of David Jones: a sermon. In The Tablet.
- O'Connell, Eileen. Trans. Eilos Dillon (1984). The Lamentation of the Dead with "The Lament For Arthur O'Leary". (ISBN 0-85646-140-7).
- Levi, Peter (1990). Hopkins a'i Dduw, (Hopkins and his God). North Wales Arts Association. ISSN 0260-6720.
- Levi, Peter (1991). The Art of Poetry: The Oxford Lectures, 1984–1989. New Haven: Yale University Press. (ISBN 0-300-04847-5).
Romans
- Levi, Peter (1979). The Head in the Soup. London: Constable. (ISBN 0-09-462850-5).
- Levi, Peter (1985). Grave Witness. London: Quartet. (ISBN 0-7043-2497-0).
- Levi, Peter (1986). Knit One, Drop Oone. London: Quartet. (ISBN 0-7043-2592-6).
- Levi, Peter (1988). To the Goat. Hutchinson. (ISBN 0-09-173627-7).
- Connolly, Cyril (1903–1974), concluded by Peter Levi (1990). Shade Those Laurels. London: Bellew. (ISBN 0-947792-37-6).
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