Ernest de Sélincourt

Ernest de Sélincourt (1870-1943) was a British literary scholar and [literary critic]].

Life
He was Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1928 to 1933 and a Fellow of University College, Oxford. After a distinguished career at Oxford, he became Professor of English at Birmingham.

His papers are held at the University of Birmingham Special Collections.

A little known fact about Ernest de Sélincourt is that he went to France in March 1917 as a Professor with the YMCA and this service is duly recorded in the First World War medal rolls.

Publications

 * The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser (1910) editor, three volumes
 * English poets and the national ideal – four lectures (1915)
 * The Poems of John Keats (1920) editor
 * Guide to the Lakes by William Wordsworth (1926) editor
 * The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind by William Wordsworth (1928) editor
 * Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (1933) editor
 * Dorothy Wordsworth (1933)
 * Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1934)
 * The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth – 6 Volumes (1935–39) editor, six volumes
 * Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland (1941), editor (by Dorothy Wordsworth)