Author:George Stuart Gordon

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George Stuart Gordon
(1881–1942)
British literary scholar and editor; Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds (1913–1922); Merton Professor of English Literature (1922–1928), Gresham Professor of Rhetoric (1930–1933), and Professor of Poetry (1933–1938) at the University of Oxford; President of Magdalen College, Oxford (1928–1942) and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1938–1941); President of the Classical Association of Scotland (1934).

This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "G. S. G."

Works[edit]

  • The Fronde (1905) IA
  • (introduction) Peacham's Compleat Gentleman, 1634 (1906) IA
  • (as editor) Halmet, Coriolanus, Twelfth Night (1911) IA
  • (as editor) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1912) IA
  • English Literature and the Classics (1912) IA
  • The Retreat from Mons (1917) IA
  • Virgil in English Poetry (1921)
  • Shelley and the Oppressors of Mankind (1922)
  • The Discipline of Letters (1923) IA
  • Medium Aevum and the Middle Age (1925)
  • Companionable Books. Series 1 (1927)
  • "Lang, Andrew," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement, London: Oxford University Press (1927)
  • Shakespeare's English (1928)
  • Poetry and the Moderns (1935)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2031
  • Anglo-American Literary Relations (1942)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2038
  • Shakespearian Comedy and Other Studies (1944)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2040
  • Robert Bridges (1946)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2042
  • More Companionable Books (1947)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2043
  • The Lives of Authors (1950)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2046

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1942, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 81 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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