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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