William Wallace Robson
William Wallace Robson
Life
He was born in Plymouth on 20 June 1923 the son of Kathleen Ryan and her husband, William Robson, a barrister. He was educated at Leeds Modern School.
He studied literature at the University of Oxford, graduating with a BA. In 1946 he began lecturing in English literature, and in 1948 was elected a Fellow and gained an MA. In the early 1950s he founded the Oxford journal Essays in Criticism with F. W. Bateson.
Robson gave the 1957 Chatterton Lecture on Poetry.[1][2] In 1970 he received a chair in English at the University of Sussex, and in 1972 moved to a similar position at the University of Edinburgh.
In 1988 he was elected a Fellow of the
He retired in 1990 and died in Edinburgh on 31 July 1993.[4]
Family
In 1962 he married Anne-Varna Moses, and together they had two sons.
Publications
- Critical Essays (1966)
- The Signs Among Us (1968) โ poetry
- Modern English Literature (1970)
- The Definition of Literature (1982)
- A Prologue to English Literature (1986)
- Critical Enquiries (1993)
- The Oxford History of English Literature 1890โ1950 (1993)
- The Oxford Book of Edwardian Verse (1993)
References
- ^ "Chatterton Lectures on Poetry". British Academy.
- ISSN 0014-0856.
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ^ "William Robson" (PDF). mtcserver6.com.