Elsie Duncan-Jones

Elsie Elizabeth Duncan-Jones (née Phare; 2 July 1908 - 7 April 2003) was a British literary scholar and authority on the poet Andrew Marvell.

She married in 1933 the philosopher Austin Duncan-Jones; they had two children, the ancient historian Richard Duncan-Jones, and the Shakespeare scholar Katherine Duncan-Jones.

Works

  • The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins; a survey and commentary, 1933
  • 'Ash Wednesday', in Balachandra Rajan, ed., T.S. Eliot, a study of his writings by several hands, 1947
  • The poems and letters of Andrew Marvell, 1971
  • A great master of words : some aspects of Marvell's poems of praise and blame, 1975

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