![]() ![]() If Ross's reputation as a poet is somewhat blurred, this is partly because his own writing was inevitably overshadowed by his editorial self, and partly because his poems are dominated by two themes uncongenial to contemporary English taste - war and travel. ![]() In 1949, he married Jennifer Fry, of the chocolate-making dynasty their son, Jonathan, was born in 1953. He landed on his feet financially too, receiving an award from the Rockefeller Foundation, working for the British Council, and, from 1950, becoming a sports writer on the Observer. He had completed, in Germany, the poems for his first full-length collection, The Derelict Day (1947) he had made important friendships among writers and artists and he almost immediately set off for Corsica, with the painter John Minton, to write his first travel book, Time Was Away (1948). His undergraduate career was, however, interrupted by naval war service on Russian convoys, and, demobilised in 1947, he had no wish to return to Oxford. ![]()
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