George Stuart Gordon
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George Stuart Gordon (1881-1942) was a British literary scholar. He was Professor of English Literature at Leeds University. Later he was Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford, 1922-1928,[2] President of Magdalene College, Oxford,[1] Professor of Poetry there, and Vice-Chancellor (1938-1941). He was one of the Kolbitars, J. R. R. Tolkien's group of readers of Icelandic sagas.[3]
His son George Gordon was a noted physiologist.[4]
[edit] Works
- Henry Peacham's The Compleat Gentleman (1906) editor
- English Literature and the Classics (1912) editor, contribution on Theophrastus
- Mons and the Retreat (1917)[2]
- Medium Aevum and the Middle Age (1925) Society for Pure English Tract 19
- Richard II (Shakespeare) (1925) editor
- On writing and writers, Walter Alexander Raleigh (1926) editor
- Companionable Books (1927)
- Shakespeare's English (1928) Society for Pure English Tract 29
- Anglo-American Literary Relations (1942)
- The Letters of G. S. Gordon, 1902-1942 (1943)
- Shakespearian Comedy and other studies (1945)
- The Discipline of Letters (1946)
- Robert Bridges (1946) Rede Lecture
- More Companionable Books (1947)
- The Lives of Authors (1950)
[edit] Reference
- Mary C. Biggar Gordon (1945) The Life of George S. Gordon 1881-1942
