The Cambridge School Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863–1944), I. A. Richards (1893–1979) and William Empson (1906–1984)

• Published in: Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory p. 23
• Main Author: Jeremy Tambling
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh University Press 21.04.2006

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’...