Noel Stock is a writer, translator and academic. Born in Melbourne, he worked in the news department at the A.B.C. (1949-1955), and then as a free-lance writer and translator, including a stint editing and publishing the literary journal The Edge (1956-1957). In 1961 he gained a Bollingen Fellowship (New York) to catalogue the Ezra Pound Archive at Brunnenburg, Italy, and in 1968 he gained a Leverhulme Fellowship (London) to continue his research. In 1968-1969 he briefly lectured at the University of Tasmania, before moving to the United States to take up a position at the University of Toledo, Ohio, where he was for a number of years Professor of English. He is perhaps best known for his studies of the American poet Ezra Pound and his translation, in collaboration with Pound, of Egyptian love poems, Love Poems of Ancient Egypt (1962). During the 1950s and 1960s, a number of Stock's poems were published in literary and poetry magazines, and he has continued to write poetry at intervals since then.
(Source : Biographical notes accompanying the Noel Stock Collection, held at the Ward M. Canaday Center, University of Toledo, Ohio).
