William Wallace Robson

Prof William Wallace Robson FRSE FRSA (20 June 1923–31 July 1993) was a 20th-century British literary critic and scholar.

Life

He was born in Plymouth on 20 June 1923 the son of Kathleen Ryan and her husband, William Robson, a barrister. He was educated at Leeds Modern School.

He studied literature at the University of Oxford, graduating with a BA. In 1946 he began lecturing in English literature, and in 1948 was elected a Fellow and gained an MA. In the early 1950s he founded the Oxford journal Essays in Criticism with F. W. Bateson.

In 1970 he received a chair in English at the University of Sussex, and in 1972 moved to a similar position at the University of Edinburgh.

In 1988 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Norman Jeffares, Donald Low, Archie Turnbull, and John McIntyre.[1]

He retired in 1990 and died in Edinburgh on 31 July 1993.[2]

Family

In 1962 he married Anne-Varna Moses, and together they had two sons.

Publications
  • Critical Essays (1966)
  • The Signs Among Us (1968) - poetry
  • Modern English Literature (1970)
  • The Definition of Literature (1982)
  • A Prologue to English Literature (1986)
  • Critical Enquiries (1993)
  • The Oxford History of English Literature 1890-1950 (1993)
  • The Oxford Book of Edwardian Verse (1993)

References
  1. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  2. http://rse.mtcserver6.com/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/robson_william.pdf


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