'Literary English since Shakespeare'

Scope and Content

First published 1970. This subseries contains correspondence and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.
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CORRESPONDENCE
ALLEN, George R
BARFIELD, Owen
BARISH, Jonas A
BATESON, F W
BIERI, B
BOOTH, Wayne
BRETT-SMITH, John R B
CHOMSKY, Noam
CRISTOL, Patricia
CROLL, Morris W
DAVIE, Donald
DAVIES, Hugh Sykes
DONOGHUE, Denis
FOWLER, Roger
HOLLOWAY, John
INGHAM, Patricia
JESPERSEN, Otto
JONES, R F
LINNET, Catherine C
MILIC, Louis T
PEARSON, E S
STRANG, Barbara
STRAUMANN, Heinrich
THOMSON, Patricia
TILLYARD, E M W
TUCKER, Susie I
WARD, W A
WATT, Ian
WIMSATT, William K
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REVIEWS
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Envelope labelled '"Literary English since Shakespeare" (OUP New York 1970)'

Administrative / Biographical History

George Grimes Watson was born in Brisbane, Australia, on 13 October 1927. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in 1948 with a degree in English. He secured a scholarship for a second degree and received an English degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1950; he worked for the European Commission as an interpreter before becoming a lecturer in English at Cambridge in 1959 and a Fellow of St John's College in 1961. He remained at St John's until his death in 2013.
Watson edited 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. As well as producing wide-ranging literary and cultural criticism, he was involved in leftist politics, campaigning as a Liberal candidate in 1959 and 1979 and working as Editor for the Unservile State Group; his political writing often critiques socialism from a liberal perspective.

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George Grimes Watson was born in Brisbane, Australia, on 13 October 1927. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in 1948 with a degree in English. He secured a scholarship for a second degree and received an English degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1950; he worked for the European Commission as an interpreter before becoming a lecturer in English at Cambridge in 1959 and a Fellow of St John's College in 1961. He remained at St John's until his death in 2013.
Watson edited 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. As well as producing wide-ranging literary and cultural criticism, he was involved in leftist politics, campaigning as a Liberal candidate in 1959 and 1979 and working as Editor for the Unservile State Group; his political writing often critiques socialism from a liberal perspective.

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