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Allott, Kenneth

(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]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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