Plomer

British  

/ ˈpluːmə /

noun

1. William ( Charles Franklyn ). 1903–73, British poet, novelist, and short-story writer, born in South Africa. His novels include Turbott Wolfe (1926) and The Case is Altered (1932)

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Example Sentences

My favorite exchanges are those between Fleming and two of his most trusted readers, William Plomer and Daniel George, to whom he sent early drafts of each Bond installment.

From New York Times

While they almost always found something wonderful to say — “I got so fond of Dr. No I was quite sorry to see him vanish under a mound of excreta,” Mr. Plomer wrote in 1957 — they were positively unsparing in their critiques of Fleming’s stylistic tics and idiosyncrasies.

From New York Times

Britten worked with the poet William Plomer to develop an English version of the Noh play.

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By the late 1960s, when another writer, William Plomer, was already at work on Forster’s biography, Forster grew uneasy that Plomer would not handle the issue of homosexuality as forthrightly as he wished, so he asked Professor Furbank to take over the task.

From New York Times

Britten, Graham and the librettist, William Plomer, framed the simple story — the Madwoman, searching for her long-missing child, encounters a group of travelers on a river — with a small crowd of chanting monks who enter, put on costumes and masks to enact the sad plot, and then depart.

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