F. T. Prince facts for kids

Frank Templeton Prince (born 1912, died 2003) was a British poet and a university teacher. He is most famous for his poem Soldiers Bathing. He wrote this poem in 1942 during the Second World War. Many poetry books have included his famous poem.

Frank Prince was born in Kimberley, South Africa. His father was from London, and his mother was Scottish. He went to school in Kimberley. Later, he studied at Balliol College, Oxford in England. He also spent some time teaching at Princeton University in the United States. During the Second World War, he worked in intelligence at Bletchley Park. This was a secret place where people decoded enemy messages.

In 1943, Frank Prince got married. After the war, he started teaching at the University of Southampton. He lived there for many years. In the 1970s, he also taught at other universities. These included the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. He also taught at Brandeis University in the United States. And he taught at Sana'a University in Yemen.

A very famous poet named T. S. Eliot liked Prince's early poems. Eliot was an editor at a publishing company called Faber and Faber. He published some of Prince's poems in a magazine called The Criterion. Then, in 1938, Faber and Faber published Prince's first book, Poems. Frank Templeton Prince passed away in Southampton in 2003.

His Published Works

Frank Prince wrote many books of poetry and criticism. Here are some of his important works:

• Poems (1938)
• The Italian Element in Milton's Verse (1951) - This was a book of literary criticism.
• Soldiers Bathing (1954) - His most famous poem.
• The Doors of Stone: Poems, 1938–1962 (1963)
• Memoirs in Oxford (1970) - This was a book of poems about his life.
• Drypoints of the Hasidim (1975)
• Afterword on Rupert Brooke (1976)
• A Last Attachment (1979)
• Collected Poems, 1935–1992 (1979)
• Later On (1983)
• Not A Paris Review Interview (1986)
• Walks in Rome (1987) - Another book of poems about his life.
• Collected Poems 1935–1992 (1993)
• In Keats Country (2015) - These were poems published after he died.
• Memoirs of Caravaggio (2015) - Also published after he died.