George Watson (1) (1927–2013)

Auteur de The literary critics : a study of English descriptive criticism

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A propos de l'auteur

George Watson is a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, author of The Literary Critics and general editor of the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. He is author of The Lost Literature of Socialism (1998, 2nd edition 2010); Never Ones For Theory? England and the War of Ideas afficher plus (2001); Take Back the Past: Myths of the Twentieth Century (2007); and The Story of the Novel (2008). afficher moins

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Œuvres de George Watson

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The literary critics : a study of English descriptive criticism (1962) 72 exemplaires

The concise Cambridge bibliography of English literature, 600-1950 (1958) — Directeur de publication — 32 exemplaires

Writing a Thesis: A Guide to Long Essays and Dissertations (1987) 15 exemplaires

The lost literature of socialism (1998) 14 exemplaires

The New Cambridge bibliography of English literature (1987) — Directeur de publication — 10 exemplaires

Literary English since Shakespeare (1970) — Directeur de publication — 10 exemplaires

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660 (1974) 9 exemplaires

The Shorter New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature) (1981) — Directeur de publication — 8 exemplaires

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 3, 1800-1900 (1969) 8 exemplaires

The study of literature (1969) 8 exemplaires

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 (1971) 6 exemplaires

The Cambridge bibliography of English literature, Volume V. Supplement (1957) 5 exemplaires

The Discipline of English: A Guide to Critical Theory and Practice (1978) 5 exemplaires

The story of the novel (1979) 4 exemplaires

Coleridge the poet (2016) 4 exemplaires

Heresies and heretics memories of the twentieth century (2013) 3 exemplaires

Politics and Literature in Modern Britain (1977) 2 exemplaires

Literary Thesis (1970) 2 exemplaires

English Ideology: Studies in the Language of Victorian Politics (1973) 2 exemplaires

Lord Acton's History of liberty : a study of his library, with an edited text of his History of liberty notes (1994) 1 exemplaire

C.B.E.L.: the making of the Cambridge bibliography 1 exemplaire

Critical essays on C.S. Lewis (1992) 1 exemplaire

Is Socialism Left? (1972) 1 exemplaire

The idea of liberalism : studies for a new map of politics (1985) 1 exemplaire

Radical Alternative (1962) — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire

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Biographia Literaria (1907) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 392 exemplaires

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Date de naissance: 1927-10-13
Date de décès: 2013-08-02
Sexe: male
Lieu de naissance: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Relations: Lewis, C. S. (teacher)
Organisations: University of Cambridge (St. John's College ∙ Fellow)

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Is Socialism Left? par George Watson

Reviewed in the September 1972 issue of the Socialist Standard:

http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2017/10/is-socialism-left-1972.html

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Impossibilist | Oct 21, 2017 |

The literary critics : a study of English d… par George Watson

I have really enjoyed this book. There are a sufficiency of plums ('They do not contribute: they interrupt' ... 'dogmatism based on the uncertainty of its dogmas') and, what matters much more, the solid cake in between is nutritious. I am glad [the author doesn't] over-rate Dryden. [He] diagnose[s] Lamb exactly right. And [his] severities about Arnold and Leavis are just, besides being much better bred than A's own superciliousness or L's yahoo howls.

I don't think Wordsworth really held the theory of metre [he is blamed] for on p. 116. The sentence about 'superadding' the 'charm' of verse is introduced by the words 'Now supposing for a moment'. i.e. even if metre were merely something added (like jam on bread and butter) why should I not use it? He supposes, positionis causa, a concession he refuses actually to make. His real theory of metre (to my mind the best, perhaps the only valuable, part of the Preface) follows in the next two paragraphs and begins appropriately with the word 'But' ('But various causes...')

On p. 202 where it appears...as if W.P. Ker had been a Christian? Was he? I never heard of, nor remotely suspected, it. Even I, by the way, wrote nearly the whole of the Allegory book while I was still an agnostic.

There is one passage (p. 29) that completely defeated me. What is snobbish about finding Laodamia [one of Wordsworth's poems] 'not wholly free' from artificiality? ...I don't mean that I disagree... (which is what people sometimes mean, when they say they don't understand). I mean that I am baffled...

But it's a good book.
- from a 12 May 1962 letter to the author, in The collected letters of C.S. Lewis, volume III… (plus d'informations)

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C.S._Lewis | Mar 30, 2009 |

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