Arthur Henry King also found as Arthur H. King, was a British poet, writer and academic.

King was educated at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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, England and Lund University

Lund University

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, Sweden

Sweden

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 and held a Doctor of Literature in stylistics. He served as Assistant Director-General in charge of Education in England. Beginning in 1943, he was an official in the British Council, serving in Europe, Persia, and Pakistan

Pakistan

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. Moving to the United States, King taught English at Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

, Provo, Utah

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 from 1971-1996 and served as an associate director of the University's Honors Program.

King had an international reputation as a poet, author and lecturer. He produced works on sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and English as a foreign language. King asserted that poet Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell

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 was a principal influence on his work, but acknowledged the influence of T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...

 and Yeats

Yeats

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.

During his academic tenure in Utah, King contributed articles to BYU Studies

BYU Studies

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 and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought

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, as well as magazines published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Poetry

• 2001 Poetry Collection, posthumous, 2001.
• Cast on the Lord 1996.
• Hymn: Every Kindred, Tongue, and People 1996.
• Conversion: Poems of the Religious Life, 1963-1994.
• Death is the Frame of Love 1988.
• Before a Journey 1987.
• Snowdrops at Ditchly Park 1987.
• Isis Egypt-Bound 1986.
• Nature and the Bourgeois Poet: A Poem 1986.
• Entitlement, a poem 1985.
• President Kimball at Mestre, a poem 1985.
• Epithalamion 1978.
• Beyond our Works and Days 1977.
• Be Still 1976.
• Hebrews 11: Strangers and Pilgrims 1976.
• Is It the Tree? 1974.
• On This Gray and Silver Day 1974.
• September the First 1969 and 1974.
• They Seek a Country 1974.
• Three Poems 1974.
• First Snow 1973.
• A Prophet is Dead; A Prophet Lives 1973.
• September on Campus 1973.
• I Will Make Thee a Terror to Thyself 1972.
• Latter Days (Monday, Aug. 4, 1969) 1971.
• Winter Solstice 1971.
• Hot Weather in Tucson 1969.
• The Right Size 1969.
• Visit to a Cathedral After a Trip Around the World 1969.

Essays and Criticism

• Arm the Children: Faith’s Response to a Violent World with C. Terry Warner
  C. Terry Warner
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  , 1998.
• Joseph Smith as a Writer 1986.
• The Abundance of the Heart 1986.
• The Child Is Father of the Man 1976.
• Final Address to the British Council 1975.
• Some Notes on Art and Morality 1970.

External links

• Hebrews 11: Strangers and Pilgrims Ensign, 1976.
• "A Tribute to Arthur Henry King, 1910-2000: Scholar, Poet, Mentor, Friend" presented at the August 2000 Sunstone Symposium at Salt Lake City