F.T. Prince was born in South Africa in 1912. He was educated there and at Oxford and Princeton Universities. During the war he served in Army Intelligence at Bletchley Park and in the Middle East. From 1954 to 1974 he was Professor of English at Southampton University. He has been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford, and in 1973 he gave the Clark lectures at Cambridge. More recently he has been in Jamaica as Professor of English at the University of the West Indies, and at Brandeis University in the USA and Sana'a University in the Yemen Arab Republic as Visiting Professor.
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F.T. Prince ranks with Auden and Spender as one of the major English poets of his generation - John Ashbery He is a poet of high distinction, so the apparent simplicity of his forms and likings will bear close reading - William Scammell, Times Literary Supplement