[1] He studied history at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a starred first-class BA degree in 1937 and won the Chancellor's Medal for English Verse.
[3] While there he became associated with the Personal Landscape group of poets that also included Keith Douglas, Lawrence Durrell, Robin Fedden and Bernard Spencer.
[4] His most acclaimed poetry collection was Unarm, Eros (1947), containing poems of “strong formal pattern, heraldic imagery, and striking sensuousness”.
[8] He collaborated with the composer Elizabeth Poston on features such as The Shepherds' Play (1947), The Death of Adam (1949), Lilith (1950), and The Holy Child (1952).
[10] In 1969 he completed the posthumous story After Ten Years by C. S. Lewis for broadcast,[11] and in 1973 he brought Mervyn Peake's The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb to the airwaves.