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

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. 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

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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'' ( Mandeville Press 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 Thomas Arnold the Younger'' (OUP, 2003) *''A Study in Greene'' (OUP, 2006)

References

Carcanet Press
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bergonzi, Bernard 1929 births 2016 deaths English literary critics English people of Italian descent Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Academics of the University of Warwick Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford English male poets English male non-fiction writers