See also:JOHN See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
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
- 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, 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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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
.
D
.
See also: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 (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
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
.
See also:Palgrave
.
See W
.
A
.
See also:Knight's Principal Shairp and his See also:Friends (1888)
.
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