Thomas Rice Henn (1901–1974) was an Irish literary critic.
Life
Henn was born in Albert House,
County Sligo
County Sligo ( , gle, Contae Shligigh) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the Border Region and is part of the province of Connacht. Sligo is the administrative capital and largest town in the county. Sligo County Council is the loc ...
, Ireland and educated in Fermoy and later at
Aldenham School
Aldenham School is a co-educational independent school (UK), independent school for pupils aged eleven to eighteen, located between Elstree and the village of Aldenham in Hertfordshire, England. There is also a preparatory school (UK), preparato ...
before gaining an Exhibition at
St. Catharine's College, Cambridge
St Catharine's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1473 as Katharine Hall, it adopted its current name in 1860. The college is nicknamed "Catz". The college is located in the historic city-centre of Cam ...
, where he was elected Fellow in 1926. He was Senior Tutor, 1945–47, and President, 1951–61.
He served in the British army in the Second World War, rising to the rank of Brigadier. He served from 1963 to 1968 as Chairman of the Central Organisation of Military Education Committees of the Universities and University Colleges, what is now the
(COMEC). ''The Lonely Tower'' (1950) was a study of
W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...
; he edited
J.M. Synge in 1963, and embarked on the Coole edition of the works of
Lady Gregory
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (''née'' Persse; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) was an Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Thea ...
(born 1970) with
Colin Smythe
Colin Smythe (born 1942) is a bibliographer of W.B.Yeats and other Irish authors and literary agent. He is also a publisher, having founded his publishing house in 1966, and is based in Buckinghamshire, England.
Smythe published the first five ...
, as joint General Editor of the Edition.
He gave the 1965
Warton Lecture on English Poetry.
He supervised the Ph. D theses of
Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Harivansh Rai Bachchan (; 27 November 1907 19 December 2002) was an Indian poet and writer of the Nayi Kavita literary movement (romantic upsurge) of early 20th century Hindi literature. He was also a poet of the Hindi Kavi Sammelan. He is b ...
and
David Esterly on W. B. Yeats.
Works
Henn's works were:
*Longinus and English Criticism (1934)
*Field Sports In Shakespeare (1934)
*The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats (1950)
*Practical Fly-Tying (1950)
*The Apple and the Spectroscope: Being lectures on poetry designed (in the main) for science students (1951/1963)
*The Harvest Of Tragedy
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are kille ...
*Selected Poems (1958)
*Science In Writing (1960)
*Passages For Divine Reading (1963)
* The Plays And Poems Of J.M. Synge (1963) editor
*Shooting a Bat and other poems (1964)
*W.B. Yeats and the Poetry of War (1965) Warton Lecture
*Kipling (1967)
*The Bible as Literature (1970)
*The Living Image: Shakespeare Essays (1972)
*Introduction to Lady Gregory's Poets and Dreamers (1974)
*Last Essays: Mainly on Anglo-Irish Literature (1976)
*Introduction to George Moore's The Untilled Field (1976)
*Five Arches: A Sketch for an Autobiography, and 'Philoctetes' and Other Poems (1980)
Notes
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Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
English literary critics
Fellows of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
1901 births
1974 deaths
Shakespearean scholars
People educated at Aldenham School
20th-century poets