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Roger Harrison Lonsdale, FBA (6 August 1934 – 28 February 2022) was a British literary scholar and academic born in
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, East Riding of Yorkshire. He was a
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from 1963 to 2000, and Professor of English Literature at the
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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'' (
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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'' (
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, 1984) * Editor. '' Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology'' (
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, 1989) * Editor. ''The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets'' by Samuel Johnson (
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, 2006)


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1934 births 2022 deaths Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature {{UK-writer-stub