Oras, Ants, 1900-1982

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English literature--History and criticism
(lcsh) Translating and Interpreting
(lcsh) Estonian poetry--History and criticism

found: Poetae in exilio, 1955:page 27 (Ants Oras; born in 1900; formerly professor of English philology at the Université de Tartu; today professor of English literature at the University of Gainesville in Florida [i.e., the University of Florida in Gainesville]; critic and translator of Estonian poetry)

found: Wikipedia, 6 March 2019:English Ants Oras page (Ants Oras; born 8 December 1900 in Tallinn; died 21 December 1982 in Gainesville, Florida; Estonian translator and writer; lecturer at Tartu University and Helsinki, 1928-1934; professor at University of Tartu, 1934-1934; fled to Sweden in 1943; moved to England in 1949 and finally settled in the United States where he lived in Gainesville, Florida; became professor of English at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1972 and received an honorary doctorate from the same university in 1975; wrote books on the works of John Milton, an account of the occupation of the Baltic States; translated Shakespeare, Goethe, Pushkin, Virgil, Alexander Pope and Moliėre into Estonian, as well as Estonian works into English, German, Swedish, French, and Spanish) German Ants Oras page (Ants Oras; earlier known as Hans Gottfried Oras; born 8 December 1900 in Tallinn; died 21 December 1982 in Gainesville; Estonian literary scholar, critic, and translator; professor of English at University of Tartu, from 1934; taught at Oxford and Cambridge, 1945-1949; came to the United States, where he taught English literature at the University of Florida, Gainesville, until 1972) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ants_Oras - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ants_Oras