Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960; often referred to as Herbert J. C. Grierson) was a Scottish literary scholar editor and literary critic. 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Life and work

He was born in Lerwick, Shetland, on January 16th, 1866; d. Feb. 19, 1960, Cambridge, the son of Andrew John Grierson and his wife, Alice Geraldine De (née Clifford) Grierson. In 1896 he married Mary Letitia (née Ogston) Grierson, dau. of Sir Alexander Ogston, Professor of Surgery at Aberdeen. , Lerwick Harbour View of Lerwick from Bressay Lerwick is the only burgh and main port of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, found more than 100 miles (160 km) off the north coast of mainland Great Britain. ... For other uses, see Shetland (disambiguation). ...

He was educated at King's College, University of Aberdeen and Christ Church, Oxford. On graduating from the latter he was appointed Professor of English Literature at his Aberdeen alma mater, where he taught from 1894 to 1915, and subsequently became Knight Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh (1915-1935). Kings College, Aberdeen was founded on 10 February 1495 by Bishop William Elphinstone in Old Aberdeen. ... The University of Aberdeen was founded in 1495, in Aberdeen, Scotland. ... and of the Christ Church College name Christ Church Latin name Ædes Christi Named after Jesus Christ Established 1546 Sister college Trinity College, Cambridge Dean The Very Revd Christopher Andrew Lewis JCR president Laura Ellis Undergraduates 426 GCR president Tim Benjamin Graduates 154 Location of Christ Church within central Oxford... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S... For other uses, see Alma mater (disambiguation). ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The University of Edinburgh (Scottish Gaelic: ), founded in 1582,[4] is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... Year 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ...

He is credited with reviving interest in the Metaphysical Poets, especially John Donne, a revival commonly credited to T. S. Eliot. His special field of research was English poetry of the 17th Century, but he was also interested in Walter Scott. The metaphysical poets were a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century, who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them. ... For the Welsh courtier and diplomat, see Sir John Donne. ... For other persons named Thomas Eliot, see Thomas Eliot (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Raeburns portrait of Sir Walter Scott in 1822. ...

Works

• The First Half of the Seventeenth Century (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906); author. Vol. VII of series called, Periods of European Literature, ed. Professor Saintsbury
• The English Parnassus (1909) anthology of longer poems, editor with W. MacNeile Dixon
• Poems of Tennyson (1910)
• The Poems of John Donne 2 vols. (Oxford UP, 1912) editor
• Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler (1921)
• Don Quixote: Some War-time Reflections on Its Character and Influence (1921) pamphlet
• William Blake's Designs for Gray's Poems (1922)
• Poems of Lord Byron (1923)
• The Background Of English Literature and Other Collected Essays & Addresses (1925)
• Lyrical Poetry from Blake to Hardy (1928, Hogarth Press)
• Cross-Currents in 17th Century English Literature (1929)
• The Flute, with Other Translations and a Poem (Samson Press, 1931)
• Sir Walter Scott: Broadcast Lectures to the Young (1932)
• Sir Walter Scott To-Day: Some Retrospective Essays and Studie s (1932) editor
• The Letters of Sir Walter Scott (from 1932) editor
• Carlyle and Hitler (1933) Adamson Lecture in the University of Manchester (1930)
• Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse (1934) editor with G. Bullough (1934)
• Milton and Wordsworth (1937)
• The English Bible (1943)
• A Critical History of English Poetry (1944) with J. C. Smith
• The Personal Note, an Anthology of First and Last Words (1946) editor with Sandys Watson
• Criticism and Creation With Some other Essays (1949)
• Swinburne (1953)

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References

• William Rose Benet, The Reader's Encyclopedia (Second edition, 1965)

William Rose Benét (February 2, 1886 - May 4, 1950) was an American poet, writer and editor. ...

External links

• Metaphysical poets at Bartleby.com