Ernest de Sélincourt

Ernest de Sélincourt by Frederic Yates

Ernest de Sélincourt (1870–1943) was a British literary scholar and critic.^[1] He is best known as an editor of William Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth. He was Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1928 to 1933 and a Fellow of University College, Oxford. After a distinguished career at Oxford, he became Professor of English at Birmingham.^[1] Early in his career he taught in the Ladies' Department of King's College London, where his students included Virginia Woolf (then Virginia Stephen). ^[2]

His papers are held at the University of Birmingham Special Collections.

A little known fact about Ernest de Sélincourt is that he went to France in March 1917 as a Professor with the YMCA and this service is duly recorded in the First World War medal rolls.

Works

• The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser (1910) editor, three volumes
• English poets and the national ideal – four lectures (1915)
• The Poems of John Keats (1920) editor
• Guide to the Lakes by William Wordsworth (1926) editor
• The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind by William Wordsworth (1928) editor
• Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (1933) editor
• Dorothy Wordsworth (1933)
• Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1934)
• The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth – 6 Volumes (1935–39) editor, six volumes
• Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland (1941), editor (by Dorothy Wordsworth)

References

1. Gill, Stephen (2004). Wordsworth's 'Guide to the Lakes' with a new preface by Stephen Gill. Frances Lincoln. pp. vi–viii. ISBN 0-7112-2365-3.
2. 'Tilting at Universities': Woolf at King's College London, Christine Kenyon Jones and Anna Snaith, Woolf Studies Annual (Vol 16, 2010), p.14.

External links

• Works by or about Ernest de Sélincourt at Internet Archive