Charles Tomlinson: Poet and translator whose writing was influenced and nurtured by work from the US and around the world

As well as his many collections of poems, Charles Tomlinson, that most internationally inclined of English versifiers, published literary criticism and translations from the works of other poets and edited the Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation (1980). His own poetry, from first to last, was influenced and nurtured by poetry from other languages, and especially by poetry from Italy.