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Frank McEachran (1900–1975), sometimes known as Kek, was a British schoolmaster and author. He taught at English public schools and the University of Leipzig and wrote on philosophy, but his most commercially successful books were his anthologies ''Spells for Poets'' and ''More Spells'' which appeared in the 1950s. ==Life== The son of an engineer from Wolverhampton,〔Richard Davenport-Hines, ''Auden'' (1996), p. 39: "In his final year at the school he was impressed by a young master called Frank McEachran, an engineer's son from Wolverhampton..."〕 McEachran was educated at Manchester Grammar School and then at Magdalen College, Oxford.〔(On Translating Nietzsche into English ) at archiveshub.ac.uk, accessed 1 May 2012〕 After taking the degrees of BA and BLitt, he began to teach at Gresham's School, Holt, in September 1924. Among the boys he influenced while there was the future poet W. H. Auden,〔Katherine Bucknell & Nicholas Jenkins, ''W. H. Auden, The Map of All My Youth. Early Works, Friends, and Influences'' (Auden Studies 1, Clarendon Press, 1990, p. 117)〕 and one writer on Auden detects traces of McEachran's "humanist world-view" in Auden's poetry until it was overtaken by the existentialism of Kierkegaard in the 1940s.〔John Bridgen, 'Frank McEachran' in Bucknell & Jenkins, ''W. H. Auden, The Map of All My Youth. Early Works, Friends, and Influences''〕 McEachran also taught the future communist James Klugmann, and the writer Alan Bennett used him as the model for the character of the schoolmaster Hector in his play ''The History Boys''.〔Geoff Andrews, (James Klugmann, a complex communist ) dated 27 February 2012 at opendemocracy.net, accessed 1 May 2012. 〕 He also taught now Salopian House Master Richard Hudson. He was also a lecturer at the University of Leipzig〔 and a master at Shrewsbury School.〔'Frank McEachran', obituary in ''Books and Bookmen'', vol. 20 (Hanson Books, 1975), pp. 58-59〕 There he taught Martin Wainwright, who has recalled that "Frank McEachran stood us on chairs at school reciting poetry we’d learned by heart. Probably child abuse these days, but he called it Spells and I can still remember them all."〔(Listen Baroness Williams on her moral and religious beliefs ) at libdemvoice.org, accessed 1 May 2012〕 He is remembered in Shrewsbury School through the McEachran room in the English faculty where the student-run Creative Writing Society meets, some still influenced by his writings. McEachran's anthology ''Spells'' (1953), later re-issued as ''Spells for Poets'', is divided into eight parts: 'Sheer', 'Queer', 'Fear', 'Love', 'Death', 'Odd', 'God', and 'Postscript'.〔Frank McEachran, ''Spells for Poets: an Anthology of Words and Comment'' (Basil Blackwell, 1955; Garnstone Press paperback edition, 1974)〕 When he died in 1975 McEachran's address was Kingsland House, The Schools, Shrewsbury, and he left an estate valued at £15,062.〔(probatesearch.service.gov.uk )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank McEachran」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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