Boris Ford
British academic
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Boris Ford's Degrees
- Masters Mathematics University of Oxford
- Bachelors Engineering University of Manchester
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Boris Ford , was a literary critic, writer, editor and educationist. Early life The son of an Indian Army officer, Brigadier Geoffrey Noel Ford, and his Russian wife Ekaterina, Ford was a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, eventually becoming head chorister under Boris Ord. He was then educated at Gresham's School, and through his English master there, Denys Thompson, was introduced to F.R. Leavis under whom he studied at Downing College, Cambridge. Even before graduating, Ford's essay on Wuthering Heights was published by Leavis in Scrutiny in March 1939. Although he came to share many of Leavis's ideas, Ford could not follow Leavis in making "exclusion and exclusivity major features of [Leavis's] critical policy". Ford had an increasingly stormy relationship with Leavis and his wife Q. D.: at one point, Q. D. wrote to him "Mrs Leavis informs Mr Ford that he is no longer an acceptable visitor to her house. Any communications from him will not be answered."
Boris Ford's Published Works
Published Works
- The Cambridge Cultural History of Britain (1992) (45)
- The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain (1991) (17)
- The modern age (1961) (15)
- From Dickens to Hardy (1960) (14)
- Judge for Yourselves (1979) (7)
- The living principle (1975) (5)
- From Dryden to Johnson (1957) (4)
- The age of Shakespeare (1956) (3)
- Report on Robbins (1965) (3)
- The riot of cuts (1981) (2)
- The Edwardian age and the inter-war years (1989) (2)
- Since the Second World War (1988) (2)
- From Donne to Marvell (1956) (2)
- From Blake to Byron (1962) (2)
- Concern for literature (1986) (1)
- The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain, Vol. 4: The Seventeenth Century (1991) (1)
- Benjamin Britten's Poets (1994) (1)
- The later Victorian age (1989) (1)
- Young writers, young readers : an anthology of children's reading and writing (1960) (1)
- The emancipation of teacher training? Changing relations between universities and colleges of education (1974) (1)
- From dryden to Johnson, Vol. IV: of the Pelican guide to English literature / Boris Ford (1960) (1)
- The Age choucher, Vol. I: of the Pelican gudie to English literature, with an anthology of medieval poems / Boris Ford (1961) (0)
- Book Review: English and Examinations (1971) (0)
- Prehistoric, Roman and early medieval (1988) (0)
- Towards a scrutiny of education : inaugural lecture delivered 3rd May 1961 (1961) (0)
- Renaissance and Reformation (1969) (0)
- The European inheritance : with an anthology of Medieval literature in the Vernacular (1983) (0)
- A guide for readers to The New Pelican guide to English literature (1984) (0)
- Changing relations between universities and colleges of education (1974) (0)
- Medieval literature : Chaucer and the alliterative tradition : with an anthology of Medieval poems and drama (1982) (0)
- III. The discipline of the curriculum (1969) (0)
- From Manchester to Brighton: Conversations on higher education (1966) (0)
- The Cambridge Cultural History, Volume 3: 16th Century Britain. (1993) (0)
- The compassion of Bach (1984) (0)
- From Blake to Byron : Vol. V; of the Pelican guide to English literature / B. Ford (1957) (0)
- From Dickens to Hardy / Boris Ford (1958) (0)
- The accomplishments of fifty years. (1966) (0)
- The Modern age, Vol. 7: of the Pelican guide to English literature / Boris Ford (1961) (0)
- Excellence and standards in the arts (1980) (0)
- How much student participation (1968) (0)
- Higher Education in the '80s. (1973) (0)
- The age of Chaucer : with an anthology of medieval poems (1954) (0)
- From Orwell to Naipaul (1995) (0)
- Universities Quarterly, 1946–1986 (1986) (0)
- Book reviews (1980) (0)
- English in the Sixth Form (1968) (0)
- Book reviews (1980) (0)
- The Universities' Role in Higher Education (1959) (0)
- An Edwardian Background (1990) (0)
- Medieval Literature: The European Inheritance. Volume I, Part 2 of the New Pelican Guide to English Literature (1985) (0)
- Charles Morris and UQ (1967) (0)
- A mandate for contempt (1979) (0)
- Benjamin Britten's poets: The poetry he set to music (1994) (0)
- The culture of unemployment (1979) (0)
- Romantics to early Victorians (1990) (0)
- VI. Conclusions and reflections (1973) (0)
- WHO TEACHES ENGLISH (1965) (0)
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