The Cambridge School Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863–1944), I. A. Richards (1893–1979) and William Empson (1906–1984)
In 1910, Sir Harold Harmsworth (Lord Rothermere) donated money to Cambridge for a new Chair in honour of the late Edward VII to deliver courses on English literature from the age of Chaucer onwards, and to ‘treat this subject on literary and critical rather than on philological and linguistic lines’...
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| Published in | Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory p. 23 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Edinburgh University Press
21.04.2006
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| Summary: | In 1910, Sir Harold Harmsworth (Lord Rothermere) donated money to Cambridge for a new Chair in honour of the late Edward VII to deliver courses on English literature from the age of Chaucer onwards, and to ‘treat this subject on literary and critical rather than on philological and linguistic lines’ (Brittain 1947, 57). After the death of the first classicist in post, Arthur Verrall (1912), when Prime Minister Asquith wanted the Donne scholar H. J. Grierson in post, Lloyd George persuaded him to make a political appointment of a Liberal (Tillyard 1958, 39). Hence Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (‘Q’), who had |
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| ISBN: | 9780748624508 0748624503 |