Herbert John Clifford Grierson

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Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960; often referred to as Herbert J.C. Grierson) was a Scottish literary scholar editor and literary critic.

1 Life and work
2 Works
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Life and work

He was born in Lerwick, Shetland. He became Knight Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

He is credited with reviving interest in the Metaphysical Poets, especially John Donne. His specialism was English poetry of the 17th Century, but he was also interested in Walter Scott.

[edit] Works

The First Half of the Seventeenth Century (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906); author. Vol. VII of series called, Periods of European Literature, ed. Professor Saintsbury
The English Parnassus (1909) anthology of longer poems, editor with W. MacNeile Dixon
Poems of Tennyson (1910)
The Poems of John Donne 2 vols. (Oxford UP, 1912) editor
Metaphysical Poets from Donne to Butler' (1921)
Don Quixote: Some War-time Reflections on Its Character and Influence (1921) pamphlet
William Blake's Designs for Gray's Poems (1922)
Poems of Lord Byron (1923)
The Background Of English Literature and Other Collected Essays & Addresses (1925)
Lyrical Poetry from Blake to Hardy (1928, Hogarth Press)
Cross-Currents in 17th Century English Literature (1929)
The Flute, with Other Translations and a Poem (Samson Press, 1931)
Sir Walter Scott: Broadcast Lectures to the Young (1932)
Sir Walter Scott To-Day: Some Retrospective Essays and Studie s (1932) editor
The Letters of Sir Walter Scott (from 1932) editor
Carlyle and Hitler (1933) Adamson Lecture in the University of Manchester (1930)
Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse (1934) editor with G. Bullough (1934)
Milton and Wordsworth (1937)
The English Bible (1943)
A Critical History of English Poetry (1944) with J. C. Smith
The Personal Note, an Anthology of First and Last Words (1946) editor with Sandys Watson
Criticism and Creation With Some other Essays (1949)
Swinburne (1953)