In 1960, he married fellow scholar Susan Koechlin, with whom he had one son and three daughters. The couple settled in Church Lawton, Cheshire, after Andor obtained a permanent job at Keele University in 1963; he had previously worked in the Extra-Mural Department at the University of Glasgow, and at the University of Montana. At Keele, he was promoted from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer and Reader, achieving the title of Professor of English Literature and Architectural History in 1984[1] - a job created to represent his personal interests. In 1995 he was appointed to the title of Emeritus.
He was a regular front-page and anonymous reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, and wrote several books of literary criticism and architectural history. His first book, Attitudes To Criticism, has been described as "a critical celebration of the very similar sensibilities and minds of Leavis and the American Yvor Winters",[1] while his last book, Design and plan in the country house (with co-author Alison Maguire), has been praised by Professor Timothy Mowl as a "remarkable scholarly resource" despite its "ambitious range".[2]
Gomme had a long-standing interest in choral music, and he edited a 1997 reconstruction of J.S. Bach's St Mark Passion which was published by Bärenreiter.[1] The recitatives and turba choruses are drawn from Reinhard Keiser's (1674–1739) St Mark Passion, which Bach himself had adapted for use in Weimar in 1713 (and which influenced Bach's own St Matthew Passion.) Gomme was the first to utilise Keiser's recitatives, and he enabled fuller reconstructions by other scholars. Gomme's reconstruction was recorded in 1998 for ASV Records by the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and the Cambridge Baroque Camerata, directed by Geoffrey Webber.
Publications
Attitudes To Criticism (1966), Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN978-0-8093-0194-2
Architecture of Glasgow (1968, with David Walker), Lund Humphries. ISBN978-0-85331-504-9