| 词条 | H. W. Garrod |
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Early life and educationGarrod was born in Wells, Somerset, the fifth of six children of solicitor Charles William Garrod and his wife, Louisa (née Ashby).[1] He attended Bath College and Balliol College, Oxford. He received the 1900 Gaisford prize for Greek prose, and in 1901 the Newdigate Prize for an English poem. Following a first class in the Final Honour School of Literae Humaniores in the summer term of 1901, he was in October that year elected a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, a position he kept for over 60 years. CareerIn June 1902 he was appointed to an assistant tutorship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[2] Although educated primarily in classics, Garrod became more interested in English literature. His 1923 work, Wordsworth: Lectures and Essays was well received and led to his position as Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1923 to 1928. In 1925, he resigned his tutorship in classics at Oxford for a research fellowship in English, which had been vacant after the death of W. P. Ker. From 1929 to 1930, Garrod was the Charles Eliot Norton professor at Harvard University.[1] Garrod published a series of critical studies, essays and lectures on various English writers and poets, including The Profession of Poetry (1929); Poetry and the Criticism of Life (1931); Keats: a Critical Appreciation (1926); and Collins (1928). His 1939 and 1958 works on John Keats in the series Oxford English Texts remains an important book for scholars.[1] First World WarDuring the First World War, he worked on the civilian side, first with the Ministry of Munitions and then in the Ministry of Reconstruction.[1] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1918 New Year Honours for his efforts.[3] Though the remark is frequently attributed to others more famous, more reliable sources give him as the person who, when accosted by a woman during the First World War asking why he was not with the soldiers fighting to defend civilisation, replied: "Madam, I am the civilization they are fighting to defend."[4] HonoursIn addition to the CBE, Garrod received honorary doctorates from the University of Durham (DLitt, 1930) and the University of Edinburgh (LLD, 1953). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1931.[1] Garrod, who never married, died at the Acland Nursing Home in Oxford on Christmas Day 1960.[1] Works
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite web|last1=Mallaby|first1=George|title=Garrod, Heathcote William (1878–1960)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33340|website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=17 March 2016|year=2004}} 2. ^{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=University intelligence |day_of_week=Thursday |date=19 June 1902 |page_number=11 |issue=36798| }} 3. ^{{London Gazette |issue=30460 |date=7 January 1918 |page=369 |supp=y}} 4. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=me7V5vIm214C&pg=PA228&lpg Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes], eds. Clifton Fadiman & André Bernard (1985; Little, Brown & Co., 2000), 228. Retrieved 9 December 2009. Additional sources
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