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George Williamson

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English literature academic who specialised in the English metaphysical poets

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According to Wikipedia, George Williamson was professor of English, from 1940, at the University of Chicago where he worked from 1936 to 1968. He specialized in the English metaphysical poets. Selected publications Williamson's works include:The Talent of T. S. Eliot Seattle: University of Washington Bookstore, 1929.The Donne Tradition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1930.The Senecan Amble: A Study in Prose Form from Bacon to Collier. London: Faber & Faber; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.A Reader's Guide to T. S. Eliot: A Poem-by- Poem Analysis. New York: Noonday Press, 1953.Seventeenth-Century Contexts. London: Faber & Faber, 1960.The Proper Wit of Poetry. London: Faber & Faber; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.A Reader's Guide to the Metaphysical Poets. London: Thames & Hudson, 1968.

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