Hugh I'Anson Fausset

Hugh l'Anson Fausset (1895–1965), was an English writer, a literary critic and biographer, and a poet and religious writer.

He was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and then at as a choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge. He worked at the Foreign Office, during the summer of 1918, later he became a reviewer and writer.

Fausset wrote regularly for The Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian, as well as for other periodicals.

Works

• Youth and Sensibility (1917) (poems)
• The Healing of Heaven (1920) (lyrical drama)
• The Spirit of Love (1921) (sonnet sequence)
• Keats: A Study in Development (1922)
• Tennyson: A Modern Portrait (1923)
• Studies in idealism (1923)
• Before the Dawn (1924) (poems)
• John Donne: A study in discord (1924)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1926)
• Tolstoy: The Inner Drama (1927)
• William Cowper (1928)
• The Proving of Psyche (1929)
• The Modern Dilemma (1930)
• The Lost Leader, A Study of Wordsworth (1933)
• A Modern Prelude (1933) (autobiography)
• Walt Whitman: Poet of Democracy (1942)
• Between the Tides (1943) (a novel)
• The Last Days (1945) (a novel)
• Poets and Pundits (1947) (essays)
• Towards Fidelity (1952)
• The Flame and the Light: Meanings in Vedanta and Buddhism (1958)
• The Fruits of Silence (1963)
• The Lost Dimension (1966)