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COURTHOPE, WILLIAM JOHN (1842 )

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 327 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
COURTHOPE, WILLIAM JOHN (1842 ) , English writer and historian of poetry, whose father was
rector
  of
South
  Mailing, Essex, was born on the 17th of July 1842. From Harrow school he went to New College, Oxford; took first-classes in classical " moderations " and " greats "; and won the Newdigate prize for poetry (1864) and the Chancellor's English essay (1868). He seemed destined for distinction as a poet, his volume of Ludibria Lunae (1869) being followed in 187o by the remarkably fine Paradise of Birds. But a certain academic quality of mind seemed to check his output in verse and divert it into the field of criticism. Apart from many contributions to the higher journalism, his literary career is associated mainly with his continuation of the edition of
Pope
 's works, begun by Whitwell Elwin (18161900), which appeared in ten volumes from 1871'889; his life of
Addison
  (Men of Letters
series
 , 1882); his Liberal
Movement
  in English Literature (1885); and his
tenure
  of the professorship of Poetry at Oxford (18951901), which resulted in his elaborate 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 national spirit and thought in succeeding ages, and attempts to bring the
great
  poets into relation with this. In 1887 he was appointed a civil service
commissioner
 , being first
commissioner
  in 1892, and being made a C.B. He was made an honorary fellow of his old college at Oxford in 1896, and was given the honorary degrees of D.Litt. by Durham in 1895 and of LL.D. by Edinburgh University in 1898.


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