Geoffrey Bullough, FBA, FKC (27 January 1901 – 12 February 1982) was an English literary scholar.

Life

Bullough was born in

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on 27 January 1901 and attended the Stand Grammar School before reading English at the

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. He graduated with first-class honours in 1922. The following year, he was awarded an MA (his

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being supervised by H. B. Charlton) and a teaching

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. Bullough held the John Bright Fellowship in English Literature from 1923 to 1924. In the latter year, he joined the staff of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Tamworth as a

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. He worked there until 1926, when he was appointed to an assistant lectureship in English literature at the

; in 1929, he moved to the

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to take up a full lectureship."Bullough, Geoffrey (1901–1982)"
''King's College London Archive Catalogues''. Retrieved 29 March 2021. During his time at Edinburgh, he published ''Philosophical Poems of Henry More Comprising Psychozoia and Minor Poems'' (1931). He was then

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of English Literature at the

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from 1933 to 1946, and Professor of English Language and Literature at

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from 1946 to 1968. During this period, he wrote ''The Trend of Modern Poetry'' (1934; 2nd ed., 1949), ''Narrative and Dramatic Sources of

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'' (1957), ''Mirror of Minds'' (1962) and ''Shakespeare the Elizabethan'' (1963). He also edited ''Poems and Dramas'' by Fulke Greville (1939), ''The Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse'' (1951, with H. J. C. Grierson), '' Milton's Dramatic Poems'' (with Margaret Bullough, 1958), and

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'' (1964). Bullough was elected a fellow of King's College London in 1964 and of the British Academy in 1966. He was a

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(1954) and at

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(1966). He delivered the

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at the

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(1955), the Alexander Lecture at the

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in 1959 and the Shakespeare Lecture at the British Academy in 1964; he received four

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in 1969. He died on 12 February 1982.Muir (1983), p. 500.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bullough, Geoffrey 1901 births 1982 deaths Scholars of English literature Alumni of the University of Manchester Academics of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Manchester Academics of the University of Sheffield Academics of King's College London Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of King's College London