Arthur Boyars
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Arthur Boyars (born 1925) is a British poet and musicologist, who is also a translator and critic, literary editor and publisher.
His Poems were published in 1944 by Fortune Press. He started the small magazine Mandrake in 1946 with John Wain while at Wadham College, Oxford; it was published until 1957. He was editor of Oxford Poetry in 1948. He is known also as a translator of Russian poetry. He married Marion Lobbenberg, who became a partner with John Calder in the publishing house Calder & Boyars. There are also other people named Arthur Boyars.