Basil Willey

Basil Willey

Basil Willey (July 25, 1897September 3, 1978) was a professor of English literature at Cambridge University and a prolific author of well-written and scholarly works on English literature and intellectual history.

He was born in London, England in 1897 and educated at Cambridge University. He became a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1935. He was appointed King Edward VII Professor of English Literature in 1946. He served as President of Pembroke College from 1958 to 1964. He retired from his position as King Edward VII Professor of English Literature in 1965.

He was a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, and a member of the Athenaeum Club.

Published works

[ Additional detail added from a copy of "Cambridge and other Memories" published by Chatto and Windus in 1968 ]

* "Tendencies in Renaissance Literary Theory" (1922)
* "The Seventeenth Century Background " (Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion - 1934)
* "The Eighteenth Century Background:" (Studies on the Idea of Nature in the Thought of the Period - 1940)
* "Nineteenth Century Studies": Coleridge to Matthew Arnold (1949)
* "Christianity Past and Present " (1952)
* "More nineteenth century studies:" A group of honest doubters (1956)
* "The Religion of Nature " (1957)
* "Darwin and Butler: " Two Versions of Evolution: The Hibbert Lectures of 1959 (1960)
* "The English Moralists" (1964)
* "Cambridge and other Memories, 1920-1953 " (1968 - Published by Chatto and Wndus London)
* "Religion to-day " (1969)
* "Samuel Taylor Coleridge " (1973) .

Additional Bibliography

* "The English Mind: Studies in the English Moralists" Presented to Basil Willey by Hugh Sykes Davies and George Watson (1964)
* "Spots of Time: A Retrospect of the Years 1897-1920 (First volume of autobiography) [ detail taken from "Cambridge and other Memories" by Chatto and Windus London 1968. ]

Footnotes

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References

* "Contemporary Authors Online", Gale, 2007. Reproduced in "Biography Resource Center". Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007.


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