Roger Harrison Lonsdale DPhil, FBA, FRSL (6 August 1934 – 28 February 2022) was a British literary scholar and academic born in Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire.[1][2][3] He was a Fellow and Tutor at Balliol College Oxford from 1963 to 2000, and Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1989[4] and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1991.[5][6][7] Lonsdale died at home in Oxford on 28 February 2022, at the age of 87.[8] He was married to the archaeologist Nicoletta Momigliano.[9]
Bibliography edit
- 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, 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, 1984)
- Editor. Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology (OUP, 1989)
- Editor. The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets by Samuel Johnson (OUP, 2006)[10]
References edit
- ^ "Lonsdale, Roger, 1934–2022". The British Academy. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
- ^ "Roger Lonsdale, 87: English literature professor who re-edited Johnson's Lives of Poets". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
- ^ "Professor Roger Lonsdale". Balliol College, University of Oxford. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
- ^ Lonsdale, Roger Harrison (26 April 2023). "'Roger Lonsdale'". Royal Society of Literature.
- ^ "English at Balliol College". Balliol College. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ "Roger Lonsdale, FBA, wins MLA Prize". British Academy. Archived from the original on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ "Lonsdale, Prof. Roger Harrison", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ^ "Lonsdale, Professor Roger Harrison". The Times. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
- ^ McLaverty, James. Roger Lonsdale (PDF). p. 407. Retrieved 12 May 2023 – via The British Academy.
- ^ "Prof Roger Lonsdale, FRSL, FBA". Debrett's. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
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