Thomas Rice Henn

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Thomas Rice Henn (1901-1974) was a literary critic. He became Professor of English at the University of Cambridge.

He studied at Cambridge with the famous Indian poet, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, father on Indian film superstar, Amitabh Bachchan.

[edit] Works

  • Longinus And English Criticism (1934)
  • Field Sports In Shakespeare (1934)
  • The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats (1950)
  • Practical Fly-Tying (1950)
  • The Apple and the Spectroscope: Being lectures on poetry designed (in the main) for science students (1951/1963)
  • The Harvest Of Tragedy [n|1956]
  • Selected Poems (1958)
  • Science In Writing (1960)
  • Passages For Divine Reading (1963)
  • The Plays And Poems Of J.M. Synge (1963) editor
  • Shooting a Bat and other poems (1964)
  • W.B. Yeats and the Poetry of War (1965) Warton Lecture
  • Kipling (1967)
  • The Bible as Literature (1970)
  • The Living Image: Shakespeare Essays (1972)
  • Last Essays: Mainly on Anglo-Irish Literature (1976)
  • The Untilled Field (1976)
  • Five Arches: A Sketch for an Autobiography and Poems (1980)