Professor Roger Lonsdale FBA

Elected 1991

Fellow type: UK Emeritus Fellow
Year of birth: 1934
Year of death: 2022
Year elected: 1991
Sections: Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830

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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)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Robert Crawford FBA

Scottish literature: T S Eliot; modern & contemporary poetry; creative writing (particularly poetry)

Professor Nicholas Roe FBA

All periods of English Literature, particularly Romantic literature and culture; William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt and John Keats; biography of the Romantics; literature and medicine

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

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Professor Roger Lonsdale FBA

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)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Robert Crawford FBA

Professor Nicholas Roe FBA

Professor Andrew Hadfield FBA

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Professor Roger Lonsdale FBA

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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)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Robert Crawford FBA

Professor Nicholas Roe FBA

Professor Andrew Hadfield FBA

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