Timeline
- 11 March 1920: Born in Warwickshire
- 1947-50: Lecturer in English, University of Alexandria
- 1950-53: Organising Tutor, Extra-Mural Department, Birmingham University
- 1953-56: Visiting Professor, Konan University, Japan
- 1956-57: Visiting Lecturer, Free University of Berlin
- 1957-59: British Council Professor, Chulalongkorn University
- 1960-70: Professor of English, University of Singapore
- 1970-72: Co-Editor, Encounter
- 1974-82: Director, Chatto & Windus
- 1975-80: Honorary Professor of English, University of Warwick
- 1981: Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
- 1991: OBE
- 31 December 2002: Died in London
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