George Stuart Gordon

George Stuart Gordon (1881-1942) was a British literary scholar.

Gordon was educated at Glasgow University, Oriel College, Oxford (First Class in Classical Moderations 1904 and in Literae Humaniores 1906, Stanhope Prize 1905).

He was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1907 to 1915.

He was Professor of English Literature at Leeds University. Later he was Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford, 1922-1928,[1] President of Magdalen 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.[2]

His son George Gordon was a noted physiologist.[3]

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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)