Bernard Bergonzi
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Bernard Bergonzi is a British literary scholar, critic and poet. He is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Warwick
and an expert on T. S. Eliot
.
He was born in London and studied at the University of Oxford
. He had an academic position in Manchester before moving to Warwick, and has held visiting professorships at American universities.
University of Warwick
The University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...
and an expert on T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
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He was born in London and studied at the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
. He had an academic position in Manchester before moving to Warwick, and has held visiting professorships at American universities.
Works
- Godolphin and Other Poems (Latin Press, 1952)
- Descartes and the Animals - Poems 1948-54 (1954)
- The Fantasy Poets: Number 34 (Fantasy PressFantasy PressFantasy Press was an American publishing house specialising in fantasy and science fiction titles. Established in 1946 by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach in Reading, Pennsylvania, it was most notable for publishing the works of authors such as Robert A. Heinlein and E. E. Smith...
1957) with Dennis KeeneDennis KeeneDennis Keene is a Democratic Party member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, representing District 67 since 2004. His district is entirely based in Campbell County, Kentucky, comprising the cities of Dayton, Bellevue, Newport, Wilder, Southdate, Woodlawn, and a portion of Highland Heights.He...
and Oscar MellorOscar MellorOscar Mellor was an English surrealist artist and publisher of poetry. An associate of the Birmingham Surrealists in the 1940s, he founded the Fantasy Press in the 1950s, publishing works by poets such as Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Thom Gunn.Although he became best known as a publisher, he... - The Early H. G. Wells: A Study of The Scientific Romances (1961)
- L.P.Hartley and Anthony Powell (1962) with Paul Bloomfield, British Council, Writers and Their Work #144, revised 1971 as Bergonzi on Powell
- Heroes' Twilight. A Study of the Literature of the Great War (1965) revised 1980
- An English Sequence (1966) poems
- Innovations: Where is our Culture Going? (1968) editor, with Marshall McluhanMarshall McLuhanHerbert Marshall McLuhan, CC was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist...
, Frank KermodeFrank KermodeSir John Frank Kermode was a highly regarded British literary critic best known for his seminal critical work The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, published in 1967 ....
, Leslie FiedlerLeslie FiedlerLeslie Aaron Fiedler was a Jewish-American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involves application of psychological theories to American literature. He was in practical terms one of the early postmodernist critics working... - Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley (1969) editor
- T.S.Eliot: Four Quartets (1969) editor, essays
- The Situation of the Novel (1970)
- "The Twentieth Century" (1970) editor, Volume 7 of the Sphere History of Literature in the English Language
- Memorials (1970) poems
- T. S. Eliot (1972)
- The Turn of a Century - Essays on Victorian and Modern English Literature (1973)
- H. G. Wells - A Collection of Critical Essays (1976) editor
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1977)
- Reading the Thirties (1978)
- Years (Mandeville Press 1979) poems
- The Roman Persuasion (1981) novel
- The Myth of Modernism and Twentieth Century Literature (1986)
- A Short History of English Literature (1990) revision of Ifor Evans
- Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, Culture (OUP, 1991)
- Wartime and Aftermath : English Literature and Its Background, 1939-60 (OUP, 1993)
- David Lodge (1995)
- War Poets and Other Subjects (1999)
- A Victorian Wanderer. The Life of Thomas Arnold the Younger (OUP, 2003)
- A Study in Greene (OUP, 2006)