Rex Warner

Born: 9 March 1905
Died: 24 June 1986

He was an English classicist, writer and translator. He is now probably best remembered for The Aerodrome (1941) He was born Reginald Ernest Warner in Birmingham, England.

Warner's work can be separated into three distinct stages. The first one, the shorter is the one devoted to poetry. While at Oxford, he worked in a series of poems that eventually published in 1937 in the volume Poems. The second stage comprises Warner their first novels. Written in the mid-twentieth century primerta, Warner shows in them a strong social conscience and concern about the concerns of the man of his time. This pattern obeys his early works such as Hunting the Wild Goose (1936), Professor (1938), The Aerodrome (1941) and Why Was I Killed? (1943). As for the third stage, is undoubtedly the best known and acclaimed. Warner took a turn for the historical novel, reaching its zenith in the field of the fake biography. At this prolific part of his literary career belong the works Young Caesar (1958), the continuation of this, Imperial Caesar (1960), which was awarded the James Tait Black, Pericles Athenian (1963) and The Converts (1967).

Works:

 Novels:

• The Wild Goose Chase (1937)
• The Professor (1938)The Aerodrome (1941)
• Why Was I Killed? (1943) (US Title: Return of the Traveller (1944))
• Men of Stones; A melodrama (1949)
• Escapade (1953)
• Young Caesar (1958)
• Imperial Caesar (1960)
• Pericles the Athenian (1963)
• The Converts (1967)

Poetry:

• Poems (1937)
• Poems and Contradictions (1945)
• New Poems 1954 (with Laurie Lee and Christopher Hassall) (1954)

Nonfiction:

• The Kite (1936)
• We're Not Going To Do Nothing: A reply to Mr. Aldous Huxley's pamphlet "What are you going to do about it?" (1936); (with Cecil Day-Lewis) 
• English Public Schools (1945)
• The Cult of Power (1946)
• John Milton (1949)
• E. M. Forster (1950); Second edition (1960) (with John Morris)
• Men and Gods (1950)
• Greeks and Trojans (1951)
• Views of Attica (1951)
• Ashes to Ashes. A post-mortem on the 1940–51 Tests (1951) (with Lyle Blair);
• Eternal Greece (1953) with Martin Hürlimann
• Athens (1956) with Martin Hürlimann
• The Greek Philosophers (1958)
• Look at Birds (1962)
• The Stories of the Greeks (1967)
• Athens at War (1970) "retelling" of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War
• Men of Athens: the story of fifth century Athens (vt. The Story of Fifth Century Athens) (1972) (with photographs by Dimitrios Harissiadis)

Translations from Ancient Greek:

• Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (1947)
• Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (1954)
• Xenophon, A History of My Time and The Persian Expedition
• Plutarch, Parallel Lives (as The Fall of the Roman Republic) and Moral Essays
• Euripides, Medea (1944)
• Euripides, Helen (1958)
• Euripides, Hippolytus (1958)

Translations from the Latin:

• War Commentaries of Caesar (1960) Gallic & Civil Wars
• The Confessions of St. Augustine (1963)

Personal opinion: The literature is the language of the interior of a person, in this case an author. These authors listed here are the thoughts of the English person or they saw and how they see their world. Besides their stories give us entertainment, enjoyment and knowledge.