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WILLIAM JOHN COURTHOPE (1842— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 327 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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; 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) . 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 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 . In 1887 he was appointed a See also:civil service See also:commissioner, being first commissioner in 1892, and being made a C.B . 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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