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Career

Durham University: BA (Hons) 1941; Fellow, Grey College, 1992.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 1964.

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  • Gregory Fellow in Poetry, University of Leeds, 1950-52.
  • Visiting Poet and Head of English Department, Bath Academy of Art, Corsham    Court, Wiltshire, 1953-56.
  • Lecturer in English, Swedish Ministry of Education, Stockholm, 1956-57.
  • Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Salamanca, 1957-   58.
  • Professor of English, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 1958-61.
  • Lecturer in English Literature, University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, 1961-62.
  • Literary Editor, Orient/West Magazine, Tokyo, 1963-64.
  • Professor, Japan Women's University, 1964-.
  • Poet in Residence and Visiting Professor, Amherst College, Mass., 1968-.
  • Professor of English Literature, Nagoya University, 1969-72.
  • Arts Council Fellowship in Creative Writing, University of Sheffield, 1974-75.
  • Morton Visiting Professor of International Literature, Ohio University, 1975-76.
  • Playwright in Residence, Sherman Theatre, University College, Cardiff, 1976-   77.
  • Professor of English Literature, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Kyoto,    Japan, 1977-89.

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  • Atlantic Award in Literature (Rockefeller Foundation), 1950.
  • Mabel Batchelder Award, 1968.

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