At the same time, he was involved with the New Apocalyptics group, writing an introductory essay for the anthology The White Horseman, and formulating as well as anyone did the idea that they were successors to surrealism.

Together with his wife Paddy, he made friends with a gamut of literary figures, from the intellectual leader William Empson to the eccentric John Gawsworth.

Drawing comparisons with John Donne, Fraser praised the poet's profound refreshment (particularly in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) of the English poetic tongue, together with his subtle facility for transitional verse and his potent effect on the poetic youth; but, more importantly for present purposes, he also confessed: "I am not a very original writer myself; I am lost, on the whole, without a convention of some sort [...].

"[2] In 1949, he accepted the job of replacing Edmund Blunden as Cultural Adviser to the UK Liaison Mission in Tokyo.

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