Arthur henry king biography

Arthur Henry King (20 February 1910 – 15 January 2000), also found as Arthur H. King, was a British poet, writer and academic.
Arthur Henry King, also found as Arthur H. King, was a British poet, writer and academic.
Born in England to Quaker parents, Arthur Henry King (1910-2000) graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1931 and went on to earn his doctorate from the.

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Arthur Henry King

When I was first brought to read Joseph Smith’s story, I was deeply impressed. I wasn’t inclined to be impressed. As a stylistician, I have spent my life being disinclined to be impressed. So when I read his story, I thought to myself, this is an extraordinary thing. This is an astonishingly matter-of-fact and cool account. This man is not trying to persuade me of anything. He doesn’t feel the need to. He is stating what happened to him, and he is stating it, not enthusiastically, but in quite a matter-of-fact way. He is not trying to make me cry or feel ecstatic. That struck me, and that began to build my testimony, for I could see that this man was telling the truth.

Joseph Smith begins his story in his matter-of-fact way, setting out carefully the reason that he is writing this history and the facts about his birth and family. Then he moves from the matter-of-fact to the ironical, even the satirical, as he describes the state of religion at the time—the behavior of the New England clergy in trying to draw people into their congregations. He tells about read

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Arthur H. King

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Work found on page 68 of the Spring 1971 issue of

Arthur King was educated at Cambridge and Lund (Sweden) and held a Doctor of Literature in stylistics.

An author and lecturer of international reputation and a renowned leader in education, he was Assistant Director-General in charge of Education in England, his native land. Beginning in 1943, he was an official in the British Council, serving in Europe, Persia, and Pakistan. From 1971-1996 he taught English at Brigham Young University, and served as an associate director of the Honors Program. Also a poet, the principal influences on his poetry were I. A. Richards, T. S. Eliot, Yeats, Laura Riding, Rilke, and above all, Andrew Marvell. Besides his poetry he has published books and articles on sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and English as a foreign language. King has contributed numerous articles to BYU Studies, Dialogue, and various LDS Church magazines.

He claimed that a principal reason for his conversion to M