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JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIRP (1819-1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 771 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:CAMPBELL See also:SHAIRP (1819-1885)  , Scottish critic and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at Houstoun See also:House, See also:Linlithgowshire, on the 3oth of See also:July 1819 . He was the third son of See also:Major See also:Norman See also:Shairp of Houstoun, and was educated at See also:Edinburgh See also:Academy and See also:Glasgow University . He gained the See also:Snell See also:exhibition, and entered at Balliol See also:College, See also:Oxford, in 184o . In 1842 he gained the See also:Newdigate See also:prize for a poem on See also:Charles XII., and took his degree in 1844 . During these years the " Oxford See also:movement " was at its height . Shairp was stirred by See also:Newman's sermons, and he had a See also:great admiration for the See also:poetry of See also:Keble, on whose See also:character and See also:work he wrote an enthusiastic See also:essay; but he remained faithful to his Presbyterian upbringing . After leaving Oxford he took a mastership at See also:Rugby under See also:Tait . In 1857 he became assistant to the See also:professor of humanity in the university of St See also:Andrews, and in 1861 he was appointed to that See also:chair . In 1864 he published Kilmahoe, a Highland See also:Pastoral, and in 1868 he republished some articles under the name of Studies in Poetry and See also:Philosophy . In 1868 he was presented to the principalship of the See also:United College, St Andrews, and lectured from See also:time to time on See also:literary and ethical subjects . A course of the lectures was published in 1870 as Culture and See also:Religion . In 1873 See also:Principal Shairp helped to edit the See also:life of his predecessor J .

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Forbes, and in 1874 he edited Dorothy See also:Wordsworth's charming Recollections of a Tour in See also:Scotland . In 1877 he was elected professor of poetry at Oxford in See also:succession to See also:Sir F . H . See also:Doyle . Of his lectures from this chair the best were published in 1881 as Aspects of Poetry . In 1877 he had published The Poetic See also:Interpretation of Nature, in which he enters fully into the " old See also:quarrel," as See also:Plato called it, between See also:science and poetry, and traces with great clearness the ideas of nature in all the See also:chief See also:Hebrew, classical and See also:English poets . In 1879 he contributed a life of See also:Robert See also:Burns to the " English Men of Letters " See also:series . He was re-elected to the chair of poetry in 1882, and discharged his duties there and at St Andrews till the end of 1884 . He died at Ormsary, See also:Argyllshire, on the 18th of See also:September 1885 . In 1888 appeared Glen Desseray, and other Poems, edited by F . T .

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Palgrave . See W . A . See also:Knight's Principal Shairp and his See also:Friends (1888) .

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