Ernest de Sélincourt

Ernest de Sélincourt (1870–1943) was a British literary scholar and critic.^[1] 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. After a distinguished career at Oxford, he became Professor of English at Birmingham.^[1]

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

A little known fact about Ernest de Sélincourt is that he went to France in March 1917 as a Professor with the YMCA and this service is duly recorded in the First World War medal rolls.

Works

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
Guide to 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)

References

^ ^a ^b Gill, Stephen (2004). Wordsworth's 'Guide to the Lakes' with a new preface by Stephen Gill. Frances Lincoln. pp. vi-viii. ISBN 780711223653.

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Name	De Selincourt, Ernest
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Date of birth	1870
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Date of death	1943
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