Oliver Elton (3 June 1861 - 4 June 1945) was an English literary scholar whose extensive publications include A Survey of English Literature (1730 - 1880) in six volumes, criticism and biography of a very wide range of authors, and translations from various languages including Icelandic and Russian. He was King Alfred Professor of English at Liverpool University. The King Alfred Chair of English Literature was founded at the University of Liverpool, UK in 1881. ...

He was the only child of Sarah and Charles Elton, the head of Gresham's School where Oliver was born, and went to Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. After graduating with a classics degree in 1884, Elton tutored and lectured in London while preparing school editions of Shakespeare and Milton, and translating Einar Hafliðason's "Laurentius Saga" as The life of Laurence Bishop of Hólar in Iceland (Lárentíus Kálfsson) into English. In this he was encouraged by Frederick York Powell, whose biography Elton would publish in 1906. Gresham’s School is an independent boarding school at Holt in North Norfolk, England, founded in the year 1555, a member of the HMC. // Big School (1903) The Senior School of Greshams was established at Holt by Sir John Gresham in 1555, during the reign of Queen Mary I... Marlborough College is a British boarding school in the county of Wiltshire, founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy, although it now accepts both boys and girls of all beliefs. ... College name Corpus Christi College Named after Corpus Christi, Body of Christ Established 1517 Sister College Corpus Christi College President Sir Tim Lankester JCR President Binyamin Even Undergraduates 239 Graduates 126 Homepage Corpus Christi College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... Literae Humaniores is the name given to the study of Classics at Oxford and some other universities. ... Shakespeare redirects here. ... Milton is the name of a number of places: In the United States of America: Milton, Delaware Milton, Florida Milton, Illinois Milton, Indiana Milton, Iowa Milton, Kentucky Milton, Maine Milton High School in Alpharetta, GA Milton, Massachusetts Milton, New Hampshire Milton (town), New York (in Saratoga County) Milton, Ulster County... The following people were bishops of Hólar, Iceland: 1106 – 1121: Jón Ögmundsson 1122 – 1145: Ketill Þorsteinsson 1147 – 1162: Björn Gilsson 1163 – 1201: Brandur Sæmundsson 1203 – 1237: Guðmundur góði Arason 1238 – 1247: Bótólfur 1247 – 1260: Heinrekur Kársson 1263 – 1264: Brandur Jónsson... Frederick York Powell (January 4, 1850- May 8, 1904), English historian and scholar, was born in Bloomsbury, London. ...

In 1888 Elton married Letitia Maynard MacColl, the sister of his Oxford friend Dugald Sutherland MacColl. They had three sons, one of whom was the biologist Charles Sutherland Elton. Other friends from university include Leonard Huxley and Michael Sadler. Charles Sutherland Elton (March 29, 1900 - May 1, 1991) was an English biologist. ... Leonard Huxley (December 11, 1860 - 1933) was a British writer and editor. ... Sir Michael Ernest Sadler (born July 3, 1861 - died October 14, 1943) was a British historian, educationalist and university administrator. ...

In 1890 he went to lecture at Manchester University. During his decade there he published a translation of nine books of the Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus, a study of Michael Drayton, and The Augustan Ages (1899) which brought him recognition from the academic literary world. Meanwhile he got to know Charles Edward Montague and wrote for the Manchester Guardian. Bishop Asgar, etching by the Danish-Norwegian illustrator Louis Moe (1857—1945) Gesta Danorum (Deeds of the Danes) is a work of Danish history, by 12th century author Saxo Grammaticus (Saxo the Grammarian). It is the most ambitious literary undertaking of medieval Denmark. ... Saxo, etching by the Danish-Norwegian illustrator Louis Moe (1857 – 1945) Saxo Grammaticus (estimated. ... Drayton, 1628 Michael Drayton (1563 – December 23, 1631) was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era. ... Charles Edward Montague (1867 – 1928) was an English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays. ... The Guardian was also the name of a U.S. television series. ...

He went to Liverpool in 1901 as Professor of English Literature and stayed till his retirement in 1925. While there, he completed two thirds (four volumes) of his Survey of English Literature and lectured and wrote on Milton, Tennyson, Henry James, Chekhov and others. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and is one of the most popular English poets. ... For other uses of this name, see Henry James (disambiguation). ... Anton Chekhov, Russian writer Pavel Chekov, character in Star Trek Chekhov, town in Moscow Oblast, Russia Chekhov, town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia Chekhovo, health resort in Bashkiria, Russia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

After retirement he went as visiting professor to Harvard and then settled in Oxford. He completed the Survey, and published a major book on centuries of English poetry: The English Muse: a Sketch (1933). He also continued an interest in Russian and other Slavic literature which had started during the first world war, and published various translations, notably of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1937). Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ...  Countries where a West Slavic language is the national language  Countries where an East Slavic language is the national language  Countries where a South Slavic language is the national language The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup... Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Robert Nivelle Herbert Henry Asquith Sir Douglas Haig Sir John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Woodrow... Pushkin may refer to: People Aleksandr Pushkin - a famous Russian poet Apollo Mussin-Pushkin - chemist and plant collector Aleksei Musin-Pushkin - statesman, historian, art collector Other Pushkin, a town in Russia Pushkin Square - square in Moscow Pushkin Museum - fine arts museum in Moscow This is a disambiguation page — a... Eugene Onegin (Russian: Евгений Онегин, BGN/PCGN: Yevgeniy Onegin) is a novel in verse written by Aleksandr Pushkin. ...

Elton's "encyclopedic range" is impressive and George Sampson, in the Cambridge History of English Literature, brackets him with two of his contemporaries who were also "scholars on the heroic scale of learning ": William Paton Ker and George Saintsbury. William Paton Ker (August 30, 1855 - July 17, 1923) was a Scottish literary scholar and essayist. ... George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (October 23, 1845 - 1933), was an English writer and critic. ...

References

• George Sampson, The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature (Cambridge 1941)
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)

External links

• Portrait of Elton by Francis Dodd
• Elton's translation of The Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus