Roger Lonsdale
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Roger Harrison Lonsdale, FBA (6 August 1934 – 28 February 2022) was a British literary scholar and academic born in Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire. He was a Fellow and Tutor at Balliol College Oxford from 1963 to 2000, and Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1991.[1][2][3] Lonsdale died in Oxford on 28 February 2022, at the age of 87.[4] He was married to the archaeologist Nicoletta Momigliano.
Bibliography
- Dr Charles Burney: A literary Biography (Clarendon Press, 1965)
- Editor. The Poems of Gray, Collins and Goldsmith (Longmans, Green and Company, 1969)
- Editor. William Beckford's Vathek (OUP, 1970)
- Editor. History of literature in the English language. 4: the Augustans. (Barrie and Jenkins, 1970-75)
- Editor. Dryden to Johnson. (Barrie and Jenkins, 1971)
- Editor. The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse (OUP, 1984)
- Editor. Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology (OUP, 1989)
- Editor. The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets by Samuel Johnson (OUP, 2006)[5]
References
- ^ "English at Balliol College". Balliol College. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ "Roger Lonsdale, FBA, wins MLA Prize". British Academy. Archived from the original on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ "Lonsdale, Prof. Roger Harrison", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ^ "Lonsdale, Professor Roger Harrison". The Times. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
- ^ "Prof Roger Lonsdale, FRSL, FBA". Debrett's. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
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