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John Patrick Brasier-Creagh, best known as Patrick Creagh (23 October 1930 - 19 September 2012), was a British poet and translator. [1]

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Life

Patrick Creagh was educated at Wellington College and Brasenose College, Oxford. He and his first wife, Lola Segre, lived in Rome until her sudden death in 1960. [1]

Creagh returned to London, losing all his books in transit, but returned to Italy in the late 1960s, travelling with Derek Raymond in an army truck. His second wife Ursula Barr was the ex-wife of Al Alvarez and a granddaughter of D. H. Lawrence's wife. After she inherited the rights to Lady Chatterley's Lover , the pair were able to buy an old farmhouse called Spanda north of Siena. [1]

Creagh met the composer John Eaton while teaching at Princeton University, and wrote several libretti for him. [1]

In the early 1980s Creagh and Barr separated, and Creagh subsequently lived with his partner Susan Rose, née James, at Panzano in Chianti. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Patrick Creagh, The Daily Telegraph , 2 November 2012.
  2. Published in 1983 by Columbia University Press as The Moral Essays (ISBN 978-0231057066) and by Carcanet New Press (Manchester, UK) as Moral Tales (SBN 85635-420-1)