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Books Imagination in Chess, An Examination of the Sh, An Examination of the Sh, Side and Screw: Being Not, An Examination of the Sh | ||
Charles Dealtry Locock (1862 – 1946) was a British literary scholar, editor and translator, who wrote on a wide array of subjects, including chess, billiards and croquet.
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Life and career
Charles Dealtry Locock was born September 27, 1862 in Brighton, England. A graduate of Oxford University, he published a number of works on Percy Bysshe Shelley. He was a skilled chess player, winning the British Amateur Championship in 1887 and writing extensively on the game. From 1904 until 1915 he was the editor of the Croquet Association Gazette. Locock translated several Swedish authors, including the poets Esaias Tegnér and Gustaf Fröding and the playwright August Strindberg. His translation of the Strindberg play "The Dance of Death" was used in the 1969 film adaptation starring Laurence Olivier. He died May 13, 1946 in London.
C. D. Locock and his American contemporary, Charles Wharton Stork, published several volumes of Swedish poetry in translation. Among the authors they covered were Gustaf Fröding, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Birger Sjöberg and August Strindberg.