George Williamson (academic)

George Williamson (1898 - 8 September 1968)[1] was professor of English, from 1940, at the University of Chicago where he worked from 1936 to 1968.[2] He specialized in the English metaphysical poets.

Selected publications

Williamson's works include:[3]

  • The Talent of T. S. Eliot ("University of Washington Chapbooks," No. 32.) Seattle: University of Washington Bookstore, 1929.
  • The Donne Tradition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1930.
  • The Senecan Amble: A Study in Prose Form from Bacon to Collier. London: Faber & Faber; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
  • A Reader's Guide to T. S. Eliot: A Poem-by- Poem Analysis. New York: Noonday Press, 1953.
  • Seventeenth-Century Contexts. London: Faber & Faber, 1960.
  • The Proper Wit of Poetry. London: Faber & Faber; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
  • A Reader's Guide to the Metaphysical Poets. London: Thames & Hudson, 1968.

References

  1. ^ "George Williamson 1898-1968" by J. R. Bennett and Blair Rouse, Style, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Fall 1968).
  2. ^ Eliot, Valerie & John Haffendon. (Eds.) (2012). The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3: 1926-1927. London: Faber & Faber. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-571-27964-7.
  3. ^ "A List of George Williamson's Books" by Gwin J. Kolb, Modern Philology, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Feb., 1964), pp. 238-239.


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