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Henry Reed: Behind the Scenes
by Cadbury Research Library
The writer Henry Reed () was born in Erdington, Birmingham on 22 February He was educated at King Edward's Grammar School, Aston and then at the University of Birmingham. Whilst at university, Reed became one of a circle of writers and artists which included W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Walter Allen. He graduated from the University of Birmingham with a first class honours grad in Language and Literature in and gained an MA in with an acclaimed thesis on Thomas Hardy.
Reed initially became a freelance reporter and had only just taken up a teaching post, at King Edward VI Grammar School in Aston, when he was called up into the army in He was conscripted into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps but a combination of Reed's linguistic abilities and ill health (he suffered a serious bout of pneumonia) secured his transfer to Naval Intelligence in the Code and Cypher School at Bletchley during Here he sp
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Henry Reed
Henry Reed was a British poet, translator, radio dramatist and journalist.
He was born in Birmingham and educated at King Edward VI School, Aston, followed by the University of Birmingham. At university he associated with W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Walter Allen. He went on to study for an MA and then worked as a teacher and journalist. He was called up to the Army in , spending most of the war as a Japanese translator.
After the war he worked for the BBC as a radio broadcaster and playwright, where his most memorable set of productions was the Hilda Tablet series in the s. The series started with A Very Great Man Indeed, which purported to be a documentary about the research for a biography of a dead poet and novelist called Richard Shewin. This drew in part on Reed's own experience of researching a biography of the novelist Thomas Hardy. However, the 'twelve-tone composeress' Hilda Tablet, a friend of the late Richard Shewin, became the most interesting charact
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A Life of Henry Reed
The author of ‘Naming of Parts’, probably the most anthologised English poem of the Second War, has too often been held to be that and that only. Like Julian Grenfell, author of ‘Into Battle’, he is seen as the saddest freak of the literary fairground: the one-poem poet. The publication of his collected poems will give the lie to that gross misperception.
Henry Reed was born, in Birmingham, on 22 February and named after his father, a master bricklayer and foreman in charge of forcing at Nocks’ Brickworks. Henry senior was nothing if not forceful, a serious drinker and womaniser, who as well as his legitimate children fathered an illegitimate son who died during the Second World War. In this, he may have been following ancestral precedent: family legend had it that the Reeds were descended from the bastard son of an 18th or 19th-century Earl of Dudley. Henry senior’s other enthusiasms included reading, but the literary a