Professor Roger Lonsdale FBA

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1991
Year of birth
1934
Year of death
2022
Subjects
Literature

Last post

Formerly Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford and Fellow of Balliol College

Past appointments

University of Oxford Professor of English Literature

1992 - 2000

University of Oxford Professor of English Literature

1992 - 2000

Balliol College University of Oxford Fellow

1963 - 2000

Balliol College, University of Oxford Fellow

1963 - 2000

Publications

Dr Charles Burney: a literary biography (1965)

The Poems of Gray, Collins and Goldsmith (1969)

New Oxford book of 18th century verse (1984)

18th century women poets (1989)

Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets (2006)

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Professor Andrew Hadfield FBA

English Literature, especially of the Renaissance (Nashe, Shakespeare and Spenser); Anglo-Irish literary relations; travel and colonial writing; literature and politics; class; national identity; biography

Professor Andrew Hadfield FBA

Professor Colin Burrow FBA

Early Modern English Literature; relationships with classical literature, theory and practice of literary imitation, textual editing, literary history, Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton.

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Professor Dame Marina Warner FBA

History; historical studies of language and literature; English language and literature

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