Helen Louise Gardner (1908–1986)
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Clive Staples Lewis 1898-1963 1 kappale
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Elegies and The Songs and Sonnets (Oxford Scholarly Classics) (1965) — Toimittaja, eräät painokset — 26 kappaletta
Interpretations of Shakespeare (British Academy Shakespeare Lectures) (1985) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
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- Virallinen nimi
- Gardner, Dame Helen Louise
- Syntymäaika
- 1908-02-13
- Kuolinaika
- 1986-06-04
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- Finchley, London, England, UK
- Kuolinpaikka
- Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Asuinpaikat
- Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Koulutus
- North London Collegiate School
Oxford University (St Hilda's College) - Ammatit
- literary critic
Merton Professor of English Literature - Organisaatiot
- Oxford University
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1967)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Foreign Honorary Member, 1971)
Royal Academy
Royal Society of Literature - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Helen Louise Gardner was born in London, England. She attended North London Collegiate School and then Oxford University, where she earned her BA in 1929 and MA in 1935. She became one of the most important literary critics of the 20th century. She began her academic career at the University of Birmingham with a temporary post as assistant lecturer from 1930 to 1931. Following three years as an assistant lecturer at Royal Holloway College in London, she returned to Birmingham as a member of the faculty of the English Department. She became a tutor at Oxford in 1941 and was a fellow of her alma mater St. Hilda's College from 1942 to 1966, as well as University Reader in Renaissance English Literature. From 1966 to 1975, Gardner was the Merton Professor of English Literature, the first woman to hold that position, and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. She was best known for her work on the poets John Donne and T.S. Eliot, but also published on John Milton and William Shakespeare. She wrote and edited more than a dozen books, monographs, critical editions, and anthologies that influenced the views of many readers on British poetry, particularly poetry from the late 16th to the early 17th centuries. She was appointed as CBE in 1962 and as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1967. She was elected to the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Literature and in 1971, she was named a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dame Helen's authority is featured in Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit.
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The glosses provided for obscure words are too rare - this is particularly a problem with the earliest poems. The spelling has sometimes been modernised but sometimes not and it leaves some words very confusing and the whole poem near impossible to understand.
There are no meaningful notes on meaning or context and for many poems there's no comment on source. Poems aren't ever given a year of composition which makes context even harder to discern sometimes.
There's no contents or an index of poem titles - I realise this isn't always possible but it'd still be useful. There's just an index of poets and first lines. Which is useful! But sometimes you need other things too.
The book feels like it REALLY overweights earlier poets from Elizabethan times etc. There *feels* like there's fewer modern poets than you'd expect. Maybe I'm wrong on that. The entirety of the Wasteland is reproduced so that's something I guess. I dunno
I know books like these rarely have notes etc but still. It's hard for a poetry newbie to get into some of this stuff.
I didn't exactly finish but maybe read like 20%? Which I think isn't unreasonable. I find poetry hard to get into but yeah there are obviously good poems here. Not gonna rate because I can't really judge but keeping the above criticisms in mind it's probably not ideal if you're not good with poetry… (lisätietoja)