George Stuart Gordon

George Stuart Gordon (1881-1942) was a British literary scholar.

Gordon was educated at Glasgow University, Oriel College, Oxford (First Class in Classical Moderations 1904 and in "Literae Humaniores" 1906, Stanhope Prize 1905).

He was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1907 to 1915.

He was Professor of English Literature at Leeds University. Later he was Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford, 1922-1928, [http://home.earthlink.net/~dbratman/profs.html] President of Magdalen College, Oxford, [He had been a Fellow of Magdalen from 1907; mentioned in C. S. Lewis, "Letters" p.208. Gordon tutored Lewis. [http://www.cslewis.org/resources/chronocsl.html] .] Professor of Poetry there, and Vice-Chancellor (1938-1941). He was one of the "Kolbitars", J. R. R. Tolkien's group of readers of Icelandic sagas. [http://www.planet-tolkien.com/modules/tolkien/biography.php]

His son George Gordon was a noted physiologist. [http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7370/972/d/DC1]

Works

*Henry Peacham's "The Compleat Gentleman" (1906) editor
*"English Literature and the Classics" (1912) editor, contribution on Theophrastus
*"Mons and the Retreat" (1917) [Under MI7; see [http://www.psywar.org/psywar/reproductions/MI7b.pdf this PDF] ]
*"Medium Aevum and the Middle Age" (1925) Society for Pure English Tract 19
*"Richard II" (Shakespeare) (1925) editor
*"On writing and writers", Walter Alexander Raleigh (1926) editor
*"Companionable Books" (1927)
*"Shakespeare's English" (1928) Society for Pure English Tract 29
*"Anglo-American Literary Relations" (1942)
*"The Letters of G. S. Gordon, 1902-1942" (1943)
*"Shakespearian Comedy and other studies" (1945)
*"The Discipline of Letters" (1946)
*"Robert Bridges" (1946) Rede Lecture
*"More Companionable Books" (1947)
*"The Lives of Authors" (1950)

References

*Mary C. Biggar Gordon (1945) "The Life of George S. Gordon 1881-1942"

Notes