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George Williamson (academic)
George
Williamson
was professor of English, from 1940, at
the University of Chicago
where he
worked
from 1936 to 1968. He specialized in the English
metaphysical poets
.
Selected publications
Williamson's works include:
The Talent of T. S. Eliot
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.