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According to Wikipedia, Harry Guest was a British poet born in Wales. Life and career Harry Guest was educated at Malvern College and read Modern Languages at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He wrote a thesis on Mallarmé at the Sorbonne. At Trinity Hall he co-edited the poetry magazine Chequer, which continued for eleven issues and published poems by Thom Gunn, Anne Stevenson, Ted Hughes, and Sylvia Plath, though there is no evidence to suggest he met Plath or Hughes. From 1955-66, he taught at Felsted School and Lancing College, and then moved to Japan, becoming a lecturer in English at Yokohama National University. He returned to England in 1972 and was Head of French at Exeter School until his retirement in 1991. A selection of his poetry was included in Penguin Modern Poets 16. He was an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Plymouth University in 1998. Apart from his many collections of poetry, he is well known as a translator from the French and Japanese, and has published several novels and non-fiction books including the Traveller's Literary Companion to Japan and The Artist on the Artist . His translations include a selected poems of Victor Hugo, The Distance, The Shadows and Post-War Japanese Poetry . He lived in Exeter, and was married to the historical novelist Lynn Guest, they have two children.

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The Japanese Family (1989) (30)
The Next Morning (1989) (14)
Days: A Novel (1978) (6)
Eating at Home (1989) (3)
Japanese inn (2000) (2)
Planning a Trip (1989) (1)
The Development of a Group Guidance Program and Some thoughts on Counseling (1967) (1)
At the Doctor's (2002) (1)
Reviews : Saint-Exupéry: 'Vol de nuit' and 'Terre des hommes'. By S. Beynon John. Grant & Cutler. Critical Guides to French texts No. 84. London. 1990. £3.95 (1991) (0)
Eighteenth-Century Blocks (2021) (0)
Poetry in Britain To-day(英文) (今月の英米詩(特集)) (1971) (0)
Greetings and Introductions (1989) (0)
Book Review: Symbolism, Decadence and the Fin de Siècle: French and European Perspectives (2005) (0)
At the Bank and at the Garage (1989) (0)
The Family in Family Life Education. (1977) (0)
A Note on Written Japanese (1989) (0)
Book Reviews: Art and the Human Adventure: André Malraux’s Theory of Art. By Derek Allan. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009. Pp. 340. 68.00 (2011) (0)
On the Ginza (1989) (0)
Shopping — 1 Going to the Bookshop (1989) (0)
Japan: a Perspective (1984) (0)
Gentlemen amongst the urban-elite: an inquiry into the 'gentrification' of the Victorian middle-classes (2013) (0)
Words Frequently seen in Kana (1989) (0)
Victor Hugo: Selected Poetry, translated by Steven Monte (2002) (0)
Fool, Thou Poet (1973) (0)
Essay Review : War and poetry (1997) (0)
Third person singular (1998) (0)
Language for Men and Women (1989) (0)
Reviews : The Proustian Fabric. By Christie McDonald. University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln and London: 1991. Pp. 247. £21.00 (1993) (0)
Family life education. (1967) (0)
At Mr Maeda’s Office (1989) (0)
By Taxi and by Train (1989) (0)
The Family Car (1989) (0)
Book Reviews : French Studies Meetings with Mallarmé in Contemporary French Culture. Edited by Michael Temple. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1998. Pbk, £14.99 (1999) (0)
Another island country : England, to-day and to-morrow (1969) (0)
Book Review: Ben Hutchinson: Modernism and Style (2014) (0)
Book Reviews : Reading Paul Valéry: Universe in Mind. Edited by Paul Gifford and Brian Stimpson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 317 (1999) (0)
Book Review: (2007) (0)
The Distance, the shadows : selected poems (1981) (0)
A house against the night (1976) (0)
Shopping and Business Trips (1989) (0)
Answers to Revision and Self-assessment Tests (1989) (0)
Reviews : Herbarium Verbarium: The Discourse of Flowers. By Claudette Sartiliot. Lincoln and London: The University of Nebraska Press, 1993. 169 pp. £27.50 (1994) (0)
Days, Dates, Months (1989) (0)
Post-war Japanese poetry (1973) (0)
The Counselling Side of Family Life Education: Trends and Treatment in the 1970's (1972) (0)
Reviews : The Flowers of Evil: A New Translation of Les Fleurs du mal [by Baudelaire]. Translated with Notes by James McGowan. (The World's Classics.) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. lvii + 399. £6.99 (1994) (0)
Book Review: Vernon Lee, a Literary Biography (2006) (0)
Book Reviews : Mallarmé's Children: Symbolism and the Renewal of Experience. By Richard Cándida Smith. California: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xxiv + 304. £28.50 (2000) (0)
Translation of Dialogues in Chapters 1–20 (1989) (0)
The Cutting-Room (1970) (0)
The Young People Arrive (1989) (0)
Jack Beeching, Harry Guest, Matthew Mead (1970) (0)
The doctrine of equivalents (1998) (0)
The emperor of outer space (1983) (0)
Traveller's Literary Companion to Japan (1994) (0)
Love, Sex, and the Family: A Guide for Young Adults (1973) (0)
Book Reviews : Apollinaire. Edited and translated by Robert Chandler. London: Dent, 2000. Pp. 101. £2.00 (2000) (0)
Shopping — 2 At the Post Office (1989) (0)
Book Reviews : The Poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism. By Robert Vilain. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. Pp. 376. £50.00 (2002) (0)
Useful Books and Addresses (1989) (0)

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