John Churton Collins
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John Churton Collins (26 March 1848 – 15 September 1908) was a British literary critic.
Biography
Churton Collins was born at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. From King Edward's School, Birmingham, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1872, and at once devoted himself to a literary career, as journalist, essayist and lecturer. His first book was a study of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1874), and later he edited various classical English writers, and published volumes on Bolingbroke and Voltaire in England (1886),[1] The Study of English Literature (1891),[2] a study of Dean Swift (1893), Essays and Studies (1895),[3] Ephemera Critica (1901), Essays in Poetry and Criticism (1905), and Rousseau and Voltaire (1908), his original essays being sharply controversial in tone, but full of knowledge.Template:Sfn
In 1904 he became professor of English literature at Birmingham University.[4] For many years he was a prominent University Extension lecturer, and a constant contributor to the principal reviews. On 15 September 1908 he was found dead in a ditch near Lowestoft, Suffolk, at which place he had been staying with a doctor for the benefit of his health. The circumstances necessitated the holding of an inquest, the verdict being that of accidental death.Template:Sfn
Criticism
Lord Tennyson, a target of Collins' pen,[5] referred to him as "a louse in the locks of literature".[6]
Works
- Bolingbroke: A Historical Study (1886).
- Illustrations of Tennyson (1891).
- The Study of English Literature (1891).
- Essays and Studies (1895).
- A Treasury of Minor British Poetry (1896).
- The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1900).
- Ephemera Critica (1901).
- Jonathan Swift, a Biographical and Critical Study (1902).
- Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (1903).
- Studies in Shakespeare (1904).
- Studies in Poetry and Criticism (1905).
- 13 essays, most on 18th century poets, in Poets' Country, ed. Andrew Lang (1907).
- Voltaire, Montesquieu and Rousseau in England (1908).[7]
- Greek Influence on English Poetry (1910).
- Life and Memoirs of John Churton Collins (1911).
- The Posthumous Essays of John Churton Collins (1912).
References
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Further reading
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- Kearney, Anthony (1986). John Churton Collins: the Louse on the Locks of Literature. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press.
- Theobald, Robert M. (1904). The Ethics of Criticism, Illustrated by Mr. Churton Collins. London: Watts & Co.
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