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William Charles Franklyn Plomer Orden del Imperio Británico autor de origen anglo-africano, mejor conocido como novelista, poeta y editor literario. Fue educado principalmente en el Reino Unido, pero él se describe como "Anglo-afro-asiático".

Se hizo famoso en la Unión Sudafricana con su primera novela, Turbott Wolfe, que tenía el amor interracial y el matrimonio como tema. Fue el co-fundador de la revista literaria de corta duración Voorslag junto con otros dos rebeldes sudafricanos, Roy Campbell y Laurens van der Post; promovió una Sudáfrica racialmente igual.

Pasó el periodo de octubre 1926 a marzo 1929 en Japón, donde se hizo amigo de Sherard Vines. Ahí, de acuerdo a los biógrafos, estaba en una relación homosexual con un hombre de origen japonés. Nunca fue abiertamente gay durante su vida; a lo sumo aludió al tema.

Luego se mudó a Inglaterra, y a través de su amistad con su editora Virginia Woolf, entró a los círculos literarios de Londres. Se convirtió en editor literario, para Faber and Faber,[1]​ fue lector y consejero literario de Jonathan Cape, donde editó una serie de Ian Fleming's James Bond colecciones. Fleming dedicó Goldfinger a Plomer.[2]​

Plomer es conocido por llevar el pseudónimo de 'Robert Pagan', notable en especial en algunos de sus poemas.

También fue activo como libretista, con Gloriana, Curlew River, The Burning Fiery Furnace y The Prodigal Son por Benjamin Britten. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. diciembre 1903 – 21. septiembre 1973
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“When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin
She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin:
An abstemious man would reel at her look
As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.”

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"Slightly Foxed", line 25.
The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires

“His most celebrated poems are, of course, the historical-satirical ballads (A or even X certificate) in which a person or period is "hit off", in the sense both of being preserved and hit for six.”

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Philip Larkin, in The Guardian, June 10, 1960.
Criticism

“Brzeska and Brooke were among those she knew
And she lived long enough to meet Lawrences, too,
D. H. and T. E. – she who'd known R. L. S.,
Talked to Hardy of Kim, and to Kipling of Tess!”

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"Slightly Foxed", line 33.
The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires

“Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designed
Than other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,
When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,
And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.”

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"Father and Son: 1939", line 73.
The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires

“The commonplace needs no defence,
Dullness is in the critic’s eyes,
Without a licence life evolves
From some dim phase its own surprise;

Under these yellow-twinkling elms,
Behind these hedges trimly shorn,
As in a stable once, so here
It may be born, it may be born.”

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"The Bungalows", line 45, from A Shot in the Park (London: Jonathan Cape, 1955).

“His poetry may be divided into comic extravaganza on the one hand, and more personal work on the other. There is no one like him in the world in the former genre; as a "light poet" he is preferable to John Betjeman – as fluent in traditional forms, his work is never vitiated by refuge in the poetical or high sentimental, and his choice of words is subtler, funnier and altogether sharper. In his other vein Plomer is fastidious, reticent, elegant and the author of some memorable and moving lines.”

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Martin Seymour-Smith Guide to Modern World Literature (London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1973] 1975) vol. 1, p. 389.
Criticism

“A family portrait not too stale to record
Of a pleasant old buffer, nephew to a lord,
Who believed that the bank was mightier than the sword,
And that an umbrella might pacify barbarians abroad:
Just like an old liberal
Between the wars.”

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"Father and Son: 1939", line 1.
The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires