See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:JOHN See also:COURTHOPE (1842— )
, See also:English writer and historian of See also:poetry, whose See also:father was See also:rector of See also:South Mailing, See also:Essex, was See also:born on the 17th of See also:July 1842
.
From See also:Harrow school he went to New 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; took first-classes in classical " moderations " and " greats "; and won the See also:Newdigate See also:prize for poetry (1864) and the See also:Chancellor's English See also:essay (1868)
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He seemed destined for distinction as a poet, his See also:volume of Ludibria Lunae (1869) being followed in 187o by the remarkably See also:fine See also:Paradise of Birds
.
But a certain See also:academic quality of mind seemed to check his output in See also:verse and divert it into the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of See also:criticism
.
Apart from many contributions to the higher journalism, his See also:literary career is associated mainly with his continuation of the edition of See also:Pope's See also:works, begun by Whitwell Elwin (1816—1900), which appeared in ten volumes from 1871—'889; his See also:life of See also:Addison (Men of Letters See also:series, 1882); his Liberal See also:Movement• in English Literature (1885); and his See also:tenure of the professorship of Poetry at Oxford (1895—1901), which resulted in his elaborate See also:History of English Poetry (the first volume appearing in 1895), and his Life in Poetry (190,)
.
He deals with the history of English poetry as a whole, and in its unity as a result of the See also:national spirit and thought in succeeding ages, and attempts to bring the See also:great poets into relation with this
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In 1887 he was appointed a See also:civil service See also:commissioner, being first commissioner in 1892, and being made a C.B
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He was made an honorary See also:fellow of his old college at Oxford in 1896, and was given the honorary degrees of D.Litt. by See also:Durham in 1895 and of LL.D. by See also:Edinburgh University in 1898
.
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