Sir James Runcieman Sutherland,
FBA (26 April 1900 – 24 February 1996) was an English literary scholar, Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern Literature at London University.
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OBITUARY: Professor Sir James Sutherland
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Life
Sutherland was born on 26 April 1900 in
Aberdeen
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. He was educated at
Aberdeen Grammar School and
Aberdeen University before studying at
Merton College, Oxford
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.
From 1930 to 1936 he was Senior Lecturer at
University College London
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. He married Helen Dircks in 1931. From 1936 to 1944 he was Professor of English Literature, and from 1944 to 1951 Professor of English Language and Literature at
Queen Mary College. In 1951 he was appointed Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London, and he held the chair until retirement in 1967. From 1957 to 1962 he was Public Orator at London University.
[
He was elected a ]Fellow of the British Academy
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in 1953.
After his first wife died in 1975, he married Mrs Eve Betts in 1977. He was knighted in 1992. He died in Oxford
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on 24 February 1996.[
]
Works
* ''The Medium of Poetry'', 1934
* ''Defoe'', 1937
* ''A Preface to Eighteenth Century Poetry'', 1938
* ''The Tempest'', 1939
* ''Background for Queen Anne'', 1939
* ''Fifteen Poets: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Cowper, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Browning, Tennyson, Arnold'', 1941
* ''The Dunciad'', 1942
* ''Wordsworth and Pope'', 1944
* ''The Oxford Book of English Talk'', 1952
* ''Restoration & Augustan Prose; Papers delivered by James R. Sutherland and Ian Watt at the Third Clark Library Seminar, 14 July 1956'', 1956
* ''Early Eighteenth Century Poetry'', 1956
* ''On English Prose'', 1957
* ''English Satire'', 1958
* (ed. with Joel Hurstfield
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Early life and career
He was educated at Owen's School in Islington'Correctio ...
) ''Shakespeare's World'', 1964
* ''Robinson Crusoe, and other Writings'', 1968
* ''English Literature of the late Seventeenth Century'', 1969
* ''Daniel Defoe: A Critical Study'', 1971
* ''The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes'', 1975 (editor)
* ''Restoration Tragedies'', 1977
* ''The Restoration Newspaper and its Development'', 1986
* ''Restoration Literature 1660-1700: Dryden, Bunyan, and Pepys'', 1990 (The Oxford History of English Literature series)
References
External links
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1900 births
1996 deaths
English literature academics
Academics of University College London
Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
Fellows of the British Academy