Ernest de Sélincourt
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)