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Basil Willey ,
FBA ,
FRSL (25 July 1897 – 3 September 1978) was British scholar of
English literature and
intellectual history . Having served in the
British Army during the
First World War , he rose to become
King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge from 1946 and President of Pembroke College from 1958 to until his retirement in 1964.
Biography
He was born in London in 1897 and educated at
University College School , Hampstead, and
Peterhouse, Cambridge , where he won a scholarship in 1915; conscripted into the
West Yorkshire Regiment soon after, he eventually graduated in 1921 with a first-class degree in History and English.
[1] He became a fellow of
Pembroke College in 1935. He was appointed
King Edward VII Professor of English Literature in 1946. He served as President of Pembroke College from 1958 to 1964. He retired from his position as King Edward VII Professor of English Literature in 1965.
He was a
Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) and a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). He was a member of the
Athenaeum Club in London.
Published works
[2]
Tendencies in Renaissance Literary Theory (1922)
The Seventeenth Century Background : Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion (1934)
The Eighteenth Century Background : Studies on the Idea of Nature in the Thought of the Period (1940)
Nineteenth Century Studies : Coleridge to Matthew Arnold (1949)
Christianity Past and Present (1952)
More nineteenth century studies: A group of honest doubters (1956)
The Religion of Nature (1957)
Darwin and Butler: Two Versions of Evolution: The Hibbert Lectures of 1959 (1960)
The English Moralists (1964)
Cambridge and other Memories, 1920-1953 (1968 - Published by Chatto and Windus,
London )
Religion to-day (1969)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1973)
Additional bibliography
The English Mind: Studies in the English Moralists – Presented to Basil Willey by Hugh Sykes Davies and George Watson (1964)
Spots of Time: A Retrospect of the Years 1897-1920 (First volume of autobiography)
[3]
References
Contemporary Authors Online , Gale, 2007. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center . Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007.
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