Allott, Kenneth
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1912-1973) UK poet, playwright and author best known for his distinguished and melancholy poetry, which was assembled in Collected Poems (1975). The Rhubarb Tree (1937) with Stephen Tait is one of several 1930s Scientific Romances predicting a Near Future fascist government in the UK (see Dystopia; Hitler Wins), though in exaggeratedly comic terms, with the Nazi "Sons of Empire" bedecked in red, white, and blue shirts. Jules Verne (1940) is a fluent study, free of the literary condescension typical of early critical studies of Jules Verne. [JC]
Kenneth Cyril Bruce Allott
born Mountain Ash, Wales: 29 August 1912
died Liverpool, England: 23 May 1973
works
- The Rhubarb Tree (London: The Cresset Press, 1937) with Stephen Tait [hb/]
- Jules Verne (London: The Cresset Press, 1940) [nonfiction: Jules Verne: hb/]
about the author
- Donald Davie. Kenneth Allott and the Thirties (Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press, 1988) [nonfiction: chap: pb/uncredited]
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