See also: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
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Edward's school, See also:Birmingham, he went to Balliol See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
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
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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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