Alfred W. Pollard

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Alfred William Pollard (born August 14, 1859 in London ; died March 8, 1944 ) was an English book scholar and Shakespeare scholar .

life and work

Pollard attended King's College School in London and St John's College at the University of Oxford . In 1883 he became an employee of the British Museum , where he was assistant in the printing department. In 1919 he became a curator there . A year later he became professor of English book studies at the University of London . From 1893 to 1934 he was secretary of the Bibliographical Society and from 1903 to 1934 editor of The Library , the society's journal. In 1929 he was awarded the gold medal of the Bibliographical Society . Since 1922 he was a member of the British Academy .

Pollard has written studies in many different areas of English literary studies and has worked with numerous scholars. He gave Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and the Fifteenth Century Poetry and Prose collection. out. He was friends with the poet AE Housman and a close colleague of the Shakespeare scholars Edmund Kerchever Chambers and RB McKerrow .

Fonts

  • Records of the English Bible. The Documents Relating to the Translation and Publication of the Bible in English, 1525-1611. Oxford University Press, London 1911.
  • Shakespeare Folios and Quartos. A Study in the Bibliography of Shakespeare's Plays. 1909.
  • A New Shakespeare Quarto. Richard II 1916.
  • Shakespeare's Fight with the Pirates, And the Problem of the Transmission of his Text. 1917.
  • The Foundations of Shakespeare's Text. 1923.
  • with WW Greg , Edward Maunde Thompson , John Dover Wilson and RW Chambers : Shakespeare's Hand in the Play of Sir Thomas More. 1923.
  • Early Illustrated Books. A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries. 1927.
  • English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes; Specimens of the Pre-Elizabethan Drama. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1927.
  • The Trained Printer and the Amateur, and the Pleasure of Small Books. 1929.
  • with Henrietta C. Bartlett: A Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto. 1939.

literature

  • Henry R. Woudhuysen: AEH, AWP: A Classical Friendship. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Foundling Press and Bernard Quaritch, 2006 [ AE Housman and Alfred W. Pollard].
  • Gwendoen Murphy and Henry Thomas: A Select Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred W. Pollard. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1938.
  • John W. Cousin, DC Browning: Everyman's Dictionary of Literary Biography. English and American. 3rd edition, Dent [ua], London [ua] 1962
  • W [illiam]. A [rthur]. Munford: Who was who in British librarianship, 1800–1985. A dictionary of dates with notes. Library Association, London 1987
  • Min Lee (Ed.): Chambers British biographies. The 20th century. Chambers, Edinburgh 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gold Medallists of the Bibliographical Society
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Pollard, Alfred W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pollard, Alfred William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English book scholar and Shakespeare scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1944