Geoffrey Bullough
Geoffrey Bullough | |
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Born | January 27, 1901 Prestwich |
Died | February 12, 1982 |
Nationality | English |
Occupation | Literary scholar |
Notable work | Philosophical Poems of Henry More Comprising Psychozoia and Minor Poems (1931), The Trend of Modern Poetry (1934; 2nd ed., 1949), Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1957), Mirror of Minds (1962), Shakespeare the Elizabethan (1963), Poems and Dramas by Fulke Greville (1939), The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse (1951, with H. J. C. Grierson), Milton's Dramatic Poems (with Margaret Bullough, 1958), and Luís de Camões's The Lusiads (1964) |
Geoffrey Bullough,
Life
Bullough was born in
Bullough held the John Bright Fellowship in English Literature from 1923 to 1924. In the latter year, he joined the staff of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Tamworth as a schoolmaster. He worked there until 1926, when he was appointed to an assistant lectureship in English literature at the University of Manchester; in 1929, he moved to the University of Edinburgh to take up a full lectureship.[2] During his time at Edinburgh, he published Philosophical Poems of Henry More Comprising Psychozoia and Minor Poems (1931). He was then Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield from 1933 to 1946, and Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College London from 1946 to 1968. During this period, he wrote The Trend of Modern Poetry (1934; 2nd ed., 1949), Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1957), Mirror of Minds (1962) and Shakespeare the Elizabethan (1963). He also edited Poems and Dramas by Fulke Greville (1939), The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse (1951, with H. J. C. Grierson), Milton's Dramatic Poems (with Margaret Bullough, 1958), and Luís de Camões's The Lusiads (1964).[2][3][4]
Bullough was elected a
References
- ^ Kenneth Muir, "Geoffrey Bullough, 1901–1982", Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 68 (1983), p. 495.
- ^ a b c "Bullough, Geoffrey (1901–1982)", King's College London Archive Catalogues. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
- ^ Muir (1983), pp. 497, 499.
- ISBN 9780809301287).
- ^ Muir (1983), pp. 498–500.
- ^ Muir (1983), p. 500.