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JOHN CHURTON COLLINS (1848-1908)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 692 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN CHURTON See also:COLLINS (1848-1908)  , See also:English See also:literary critic, was See also:born on the 26th of See also:March 1848 at Bourton on the See also:Water, See also:Gloucestershire . From See also:King See also:Edward's school, See also:Birmingham, he went to Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he graduated in 1872, and at once devoted himself to a literary career, as journalist, essayist and lecturer . His first See also:book was a study of See also:Sir See also:Joshua See also:Reynolds (1874), and later he edited various classical English writers, and published volumes on See also:Bolingbroke and See also:Voltaire in See also:England (1886), a Study of English Literature (1891), a study of See also:Dean See also:Swift (1893), Essays and Studies (1895), Ephemera Critica (1901), Essays in See also:Poetry and See also:Criticism (1905), and See also:Rousseau and Voltaire (1908), his See also:original essays beingsharplycontroversial in See also:tone, but full of knowledge . In 1904 he became See also:professor of English literature at Birmingham University . For many years he was a prominent University See also:Extension lecturer, and a See also:constant contributor to the See also:principal reviews . On the 15th of See also:September 1908 he was found dead in a ditch near See also:Lowestoft, at which See also:place he had been staying with a See also:doctor for the benefit of his See also:health .

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