F. W. Bateson

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Frederick (Noel) Wilse Bateson (1901-1978) was an English literary scholar and critic. He is often quoted for his remark, " "If the Mona Lisa is in the Louvre, where are 'Hamlet and Lycidas?", from Essays in Critical Dissent. He is noted also for his 1959 essay The English School in a Democracy.

He was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

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Oxford Poetry (1923) editor
English Comic Drama 1700-1750 (1929)
Works of Congreve (1930) editor
The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (1941) five volumes, to 1957
Towards a Socialist Agriculture (1946) Fabian studies, editor
English Poetry: A Critical Introduction (1950)
Twickenham edition of Alexander Pope, Vol. 3.2, Epistles to Several Persons (Moral Essays) (1951) editor
Wordsworth: A Re-Interpretation (1954)
English poetry and the English Language (1961)
A Guide to English Literature (1963)
A Guide to English and American Literature (1970) with Harrison T. Meserole
The scholar-critic: An introduction to literary research (1972)
Essays in Critical Dissent (1972)
The School for Scandal (1979) editor