Ernest de Sélincourt

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Ernest de Sélincourt (1870–1943) was a British literary scholar and critic. He is best known as an editor of William Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth. He was Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1928 to 1933 and a Fellow of University College, Oxford.

His Papers are held at the University of Birmingham Special Collections.

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• The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser (1910) editor, three volumes
• English poets and the national ideal – four lectures (1915)
• The Poems of John Keats (1920) editor
• A Guide through the District of the Lakes by William Wordsworth (1926) editor
• The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind by William Wordsworth (1928) editor
• Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (1933) editor
• Dorothy Wordsworth (1933)
• Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1934)
• The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth – 6 Volumes (1935–39) editor, six volumes
• Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland (1941), editor (by Dorothy Wordsworth)