Bernard Bergonzi

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(13 April 1929 – 20 September 2016) was a British literary scholar, critic, and poet. He was Emeritus Professor of English at the

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and an expert on T. S. Eliot. He was born in London and studied at

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. He had an academic position in Manchester before moving to Warwick, and held visiting professorships at American universities.

Works

*''Godolphin and Other Poems'' ( Latin Press, 1952) *''Descartes and the Animals'' - Poems 1948-54 (1954) *''The Fantasy Poets: Number 34'' (

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1957) with Dennis Keene and Oscar Mellor *''The Early H. G. Wells: A Study of The Scientific Romances'' (1961) *''L.P.Hartley and Anthony Powell'' (1962) with Paul Bloomfield, British Council, Writers and Their Work #144, revised 1971 as ''Bergonzi on Powell'' *''Heroes' Twilight. A Study of the Literature of the Great War'' (1965) revised 1980 *''An English Sequence'' (1966) poems *''Innovations: Where is our Culture Going?'' (1968) editor, with

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*''Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley'' (1969) editor *''T.S.Eliot: Four Quartets'' (1969) editor, essays *''The Situation of the Novel'' (1970) *"The Twentieth Century" (1970) editor, Volume 7 of the ''Sphere History of Literature in the English Language'' *''Memorials'' (1970) poems *''T. S. Eliot'' (1972) *''The Turn of a Century - Essays on Victorian and Modern English Literature'' (1973) *''H. G. Wells - A Collection of Critical Essays'' (1976) editor *''Gerard Manley Hopkins'' (1977) *''Reading the Thirties'' (1978) *''Years'' (

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1979) poems *''The Roman Persuasion'' (1981) novel *''The Myth of Modernism and Twentieth Century Literature'' (1986) *''A Short History of English Literature'' (1990) revision of Ifor Evans *''Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, Culture'' (OUP, 1991) *''Wartime and Aftermath : English Literature and Its Background, 1939-60'' (OUP, 1993) *''David Lodge'' (1995) *''War Poets and Other Subjects'' (1999) *''A Victorian Wanderer. The Life of

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'' (OUP, 2003) *''A Study in Greene'' (OUP, 2006)

References

Carcanet Press
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