Michael Alexander, who has died aged 82, was a translator, poet, academic and broadcaster whose scholarship was both deep and varied; his interests ranged from Old English poetry to the modernism of Ezra Pound, and he was also the author of an epic history of English literature that ran to more than 400 pages.
“The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing” recalls a champion of ideas with a knack for networking and a taste for the high life.
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