Ernest de Sélincourt (1870–1943) was a British literary scholar and critic, the eldest son of Charles Alexandre De Sélincourt and Theodora Bruce Bendall. He is best known as an editor of

William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication ''Lyrical Ballads'' (1798). Wordsworth's ' ...

and Dorothy Wordsworth. He was an

Oxford Professor of Poetry The Professor of Poetry is an academic appointment at the University of Oxford. The chair was created in 1708 by an endowment from the estate of Henry Birkhead. The professorship carries an obligation to lecture, but is in effect a part-time po ...

from 1928 to 1933 and a Fellow of

University College, Oxford University College (in full The College of the Great Hall of the University of Oxford, colloquially referred to as "Univ") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It has a claim to being the oldest college of the univer ...

. After a distinguished career at Oxford, he became a Professor of English at

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

. Early in his career he taught in the Ladies' Department of King's College London, where his students included

Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born i ...

(then Virginia Stephen).'Tilting at Universities': Woolf at King's College London, Christine Kenyon Jones and Anna Snaith, Woolf Studies Annual (Vol 16, 2010), p.14. His papers are held at the University of Birmingham Special Collections. De Sélincourt went to France in March 1917 as a professor with the

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and this service is duly recorded in the First World War medal rolls. He married Ethel Shawcross in 1896 in the Battle, Sussex, registration District. At the time of the 1911 census they had four children. She died in Oxford in 1931.

Works

* ''The Poetical Works of

Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (; 1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for ''The Faerie Queene'', an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of ...

'' (1910) editor, three volumes * ''English poets and the national ideal'' – four lectures (1915) * ''The Poems of

John Keats John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculo ...

'' (1920) editor * (1921 Warton Lecture on English Poetry) * ''

Guide to the Lakes ''Guide to the Lakes'', more fully ''A Guide through the District of the Lakes'', William Wordsworth's travellers' guidebook to England's Lake District, has been studied by scholars both for its relationship to his Romantic poetry and as an ea ...

'' (1926) editor * '' The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind by

'' (1928) editor * ''Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth'' (1933) editor * '' Dorothy Wordsworth'' (1933) * ''Oxford Lectures on Poetry'' (1934) * ''The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth'' – 6 Volumes (1935–39) editor, six volumes *''

Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland ''Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803'' (1874) is a travel memoir by Dorothy Wordsworth about a six-week, 663-mile journey through the Scottish Highlands from August–September 1803 with her brother William Wordsworth and mutua ...

'' (1941), editor (by Dorothy Wordsworth)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:De Selincourt, Ernest 1870 births 1943 deaths British literary critics 20th-century British writers Fellows of University College, Oxford Oxford Professors of Poetry Academics of the University of Birmingham