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George Williamson (1898 - 8 September 1968)
[1] was professor of English, from 1940, at the
University of Chicago where he worked from 1936 to 1968.
[2] He specialized in the English
metaphysical poets .
Selected publications
Williamson's works include:
[3]
The Talent of T. S. Eliot ("University of Washington Chapbooks," No. 32.) Seattle: University of Washington Bookstore, 1929.
The Donne Tradition . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1930.
The Senecan Amble: A Study in Prose Form from Bacon to Collier . London: Faber & Faber; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
A Reader's Guide to T. S. Eliot: A Poem-by- Poem Analysis . New York: Noonday Press, 1953.
Seventeenth-Century Contexts . London: Faber & Faber, 1960.
The Proper Wit of Poetry . London: Faber & Faber; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
A Reader's Guide to the Metaphysical Poets . London: Thames & Hudson, 1968.
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