Career
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Poet, critic, translator, essayist, and novelist. Held various jobs in Glasgow, 1901-19. Journalist and translator, staff member, New Age, London, 1919-21; fiction reviewer, The Listener, London, 1933-45; co-editor, European Quarterly, 1934. Freelance writer and translator, 1921-42. British Council, Edinburgh, staff member, 1942-45; British Council Institute, Prague, Czechoslovakia, director, 1945-48; British Council Institute, Rome, director, 1949-50; Newbattle Abbey, Edinburgh, warden, 1950-55; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Charles Eliot Norton professor, 1955-56; retired to Swaffham Priory near Cambridge, 1956; visiting Winston Churchill professor, University of Bristol, 1958.
