{{Short description|British writer and publisher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Arthur Boyars | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|05|28|df=y}} | birth_name = | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|08|06|1925|05|28|df=y}} | death_place = | burial_place = | occupation = Poet, translator and publisher | education = | known_for = | alma_mater = Wadham College, Oxford | spouse = Marion Lobbenberg | notable_works = | awards = }} '''Arthur Boyars''' (28 May 1925 – 6 August 2017)<ref name=Independent>{{cite news|first=Nicholas |last=Jacobs|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/arthur-boyars-poet-and-publisher-a7891901.html |title=Arthur Boyars, gifted poet and publisher with a passion for music|newspaper=The Independent|date= 14 August 2017}}</ref> was a British poet and musicologist, who was also a translator and critic, literary editor and publisher.
His ''Poems'' were published in 1944 by Fortune Press. Boyars started the small magazine ''Mandrake'' in 1945 with John Wain while at Wadham College, Oxford,<ref name="Oxford" /><ref name="EmpsonHaffenden2006">{{cite book|last1=Empson|first1=William|author-link=William Empson|author2=John Haffenden|author2-link=John Haffenden|title=Selected letters of William Empson|url=https://archive.org/details/selectedletterso0048emps|url-access=registration|access-date=12 December 2010|year=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-928684-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/selectedletterso0048emps/page/276 276]}}</ref> subtitled "An Oxford Review";<ref name="Ford">{{cite web|url=http://www.richardfordmanuscripts.co.uk/keywords/boyars|title=One Autograph Letter Signed and one Typed Letter Signed to Michael Fraenkel|last=Ford|first=Dr. Richard|work=Object description|publisher=Richard Ford|access-date=12 December 2010}}</ref> it was published until 1957.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=8639|title=Late Gifts|journal=PN Review 207|volume=39|number=1|date=September–October 2012}}</ref> Boyars was editor of ''Oxford Poetry'' in 1948.<ref name="Oxford">{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordpoetry.co.uk/history.php?contrib=b |title=History of the Magazine |work=Oxford Poetry |publisher=Magdalen College, Oxford |access-date=12 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005150735/http://www.oxfordpoetry.co.uk/history.php?contrib=b |archivedate=5 October 2011 }}</ref> He is known also as a translator of Russian poetry. He became the second husband of Marion Lobbenberg, who formed a partnership with John Calder in the publishing house Calder & Boyars. Boyars's name is associated with the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko.<ref name="blog">{{cite web|url=https://solitary-walker.blogspot.com/2010/04/day-i-met-yevgeny-yevtushenko.html|title=The Solitary Walker: The Day I Met Yevgeny Yevtushenko|work=Blogger|date=19 April 2010|access-date=12 December 2010}}</ref> In 2011, Boyars published a limited edition of his own poetry, ''Dictations: Selected Poems 1940–2009'', which was described by the critic Alberto Manguel as "Dantesque".<ref name=Independent />
==Works== *(ed. with Barry Hamer), ''Oxford Poetry 1948'', Oxford: Blackwell, 1948 *(trans. with David Burg) Yuli Daniel, ''Prison Poems'', 1971 *(trans. with Simon Franklin) Yevgeny Yevtushenko, ''The Face Behind the Face'', 1979 *''Dictations: Selected Poems 1940–2009'', Lexington: The Philidor Company, 2011
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==External links== *[http://www.arthurboyars.com/ www.arthurboyars.com contains some of Arthur Boyars' early poetry.] *{{cite web|url=http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/archives/boyarsSu1949.php |title=Transcript of poem, 'Funeral' |last=Boyars, Arthur |work=The Kenyon Review: The International Journal of Literature, Culture and the Arts |publisher=The National Endowment for the Arts |access-date=12 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515222958/http://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/archives/boyarsSu1949.php |archivedate=15 May 2008 }}
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