Charles Dealtry Locock

Charles Dealtry Locock was born September 27, 1862, in Brighton, England.[1] He was educated at Winchester College and Oxford University and then published several works on the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.[2][3] He was a skilled chess player, winning the British Amateur Championship in 1887 [1] and writing extensively on the game.[3] From 1904 until 1915 he was the editor of the Croquet Association Gazette.[4] Locock translated several Swedish authors, including the poets Esaias Tegnér and Gustaf Fröding and the playwright August Strindberg.[3] His translation of the Strindberg play "The Dance of Death" was used in the 1969 film adaptation starring Laurence Olivier.[5] He died May 13, 1946, in London.[1]

C. D. Locock and his American contemporary, Charles Wharton Stork, published several volumes of Swedish poetry in translation.[6] Among the authors they covered were Gustaf Fröding, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Birger Sjöberg and August Strindberg.[7][8]

• Side and Screw 1901
• Modern Croquet Tactics 1907
• Olympian Echoes 1908
• The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1911
• 120 Chess Problems and Puzzles 1912 [7]

• Thirty-two passages from the Iliad 1922
• Thirty-two passages from the Odyssey 1923
• Fritiof's Saga by Esaias Tegnér 1924
• Guitar and Concertina by Gustaf Fröding 1925
• Modern Swedish Poetry Pt. 1 1929
• Easter and other plays by August Strindberg 1929
• Lucky Peter's Travels and other plays by August Strindberg 1930
• Master Olof and other plays by August Strindberg 1931
• Modern Swedish Poetry Pt. 2 1936 [7]

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