Roger Harrison Lonsdale,
FBA (6 August 1934 – 28 February 2022) was a British literary scholar and academic born in
Hornsea
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, East Riding of Yorkshire. He was a
Fellow
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and
Tutor
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at
Balliol College
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Oxford
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from 1963 to 2000, and Professor of English Literature at the
University of Oxford
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, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
from 1992 to 2000. He was elected a
Fellow of the British Academy in 1991. Lonsdale died in Oxford on 28 February 2022, at the age of 87. He was married to the archaeologist Nicoletta Momigliano.
Bibliography
* ''Dr Charles Burney: A literary Biography'' (Clarendon Press, 1965)
* Editor. ''The Poems of Gray, Collins and Goldsmith'' (Longmans, Green and Company, 1969)
* Editor. William Beckford's ''Vathek'' (
OUP
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, 1970)
* Editor. ''History of literature in the English language. 4: the Augustans''. (Barrie and Jenkins, 1970-75)
* Editor. ''Dryden to Johnson''. (Barrie and Jenkins, 1971)
* Editor. ''
The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse'' (
OUP
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, 1984)
* Editor. ''
Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology'' (
OUP
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, 1989)
* Editor. ''The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets'' by Samuel Johnson (
OUP
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, 2006)
References
1934 births
2022 deaths
Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford
Fellows of the British Academy
Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
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