FRANK KENDON

'Frank Samuel Herbert Kendon' (1893 - December 28 1959) was an English writer, poet and academic. He was also an illustrator, and journalist.
He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1948. He was a published poet in the 1920s and later a writer of stories and a novel. From 1935 to 1954 he worked for Cambridge University Press. At the beginning of World War II he was a campaigning pacifist. Kendon had a son named Adam Kendon, born 1934 in London.
After the war, he undertook the translations of the Psalms in the New English Bible, but died before he could complete the work.

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Works

Works

★ Poems by Four Authors (1923) with J. R. Ackerley, A. Y. Campbell, and Edward Davison

★ Poems and Sonnets (1924)

★ Mural paintings in English churches during the Middle Ages: an introductory essay on the folk influence in religious art (Bodley Head 1923)

★ Arguments & Emblems (1925)

★ A Life and Death of Judas Iscariot (Bodley Head 1926))

★ The Small Years (1930) autobiography

★ The Adventure of Poetry (1932)

★ Tristram (1934) poem

★ The Cherry Minder (1935) poems

★ The Flawless Stone (1942) poem

★ The Time Piece (1945) poem

★ Each Silver Fly

★ The Farmers Friend

★ Cage & Wing (1947) poem

★ Martin Makesure (1950) novel

★ Jacob & Thomas: Darkness (1950)

★ Thirty Six Psalms, an English Version Cambridge University Press, 1963