Arthur Quiller couch

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (born November 21, 1863 in Bodmin , Cornwall , † May 12, 1944 in Fowey ) was a British writer and critic .

Life

Quiller-Couch studied at Trinity College in Oxford and worked there as a lecturer for classical languages ​​from 1886 to 1887 after successfully completing his studies. As such, he made his debut as a writer in 1887 with the novel Dead man's rock . Almost his entire literary work published Sir Arthur under the pseudonym Q .

In 1912 Sir Arthur accepted a call to Cambridge, where he held a professorship in English literature. His adventure novels show a clear relationship to Robert Louis Stevenson ; Sir Arthur found a style of his own in his other prose. Stevenson's novel St. Ives was completed by Sir Arthur from chapter 31.

In his works on William Shakespeare , Charles Dickens and Geoffrey Chaucer , he dealt critically with the history of English literature . Sir Arthur was also significantly involved in the edition of various anthologies, some of which are still in use today - in particular the Oxford Book of English Verse , as well as in the publication of lavishly illustrated collections of fairy tales.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch died on May 12, 1944 in Fowey at the age of 80.

family

He had a son named Bevil Quiller-Couch. He was engaged to the poet May Wedderburn Cannan , but he died of Spanish flu before a marriage could take place.

Works

Novels and short stories

  • Dead Man's Rock: a romance - London, Cassell, 1887
  • The Blue Pavilions - London, Cassell, 1891
  • I saw three ships: and other winter's tales - London, Cassell, 1892
  • The delectable duchy: stories, studies and sketches - London, Cassell, 1894
  • Wandering Heath: stories, studies, and sketches - London, Cassell, 1896
  • A Spanish maid - London, Service & Paton, 1898
  • The ship of stars - London, Cassell, 1899
  • Old fires and profitable ghosts: a book of stories - London, Cassell, 1900
  • The laird's luck and other fireside tales - London, Cassell, 1901
  • The Westcotes - Bristol, Arrowsmith, 1902 online
  • The adventures of Harry Revel - London, Cassell, 1903
  • Hetty Wesley - London, George Bell, 1903
  • Two sides of the face: midwinter tales - London, Macmillan, 1903
  • Fort Amity - London, John Murray, 1904
  • Shining Ferry - London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1905
  • From a Cornish window - London, George Bell, 1906
  • The Mayor of Troy - London, Methuen, 1906
  • Major Vigoureux - London, Methuen, 1907
  • Poison island - London, George Bell, 1907
  • True Tilda - London, George Bell, 1909
  • Corporal Sam: and other stories - London, George Bell, 1910
  • Lady good-for-nothing: a man's portrait of a woman - London, Thomas Nelson, 1910
  • The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales - New York, George H. Doran Company, 1910 online
  • Brother Copas - London, George Bell, 1911
  • Hocken and Hunken: a tale of Troy - Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1912
  • News from the Duchy - London, George Bell, 1913
  • Nicky-Nan, reservist - Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1915

Other works & anthologies

  • On the Art of Writing: Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1913-1914 - Cambridge, University Press, 1916 online
  • On the Art of Reading: Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1916–1917 - Cambridge, University Press, 1920 online
  • Charles Dickens and other Victorians - Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1925
  • The Oxford Book of Ballads - Oxford, Clarendon, 1910 online
  • The Oxford Book of English Prose - Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1925
  • The Age of Chaucer (1926)
  • The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 - Oxford, Clarendon, 1901 online
  • The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse . - Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912
  • The Poet as Citizen and other Papers - Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1934 online
  • Shakespeare's Workmanship - London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1918 online
  • In powder and crinoline. Fairy Tales Retold , illustrated by Kay Nielsen - London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1913

literature

  • Frederick Brittain: Arthur Quiller-Couch: a biographical study of Q - Cambridge, Cambridge University Press; New York: Macmillan, 1948 online

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personal data
SURNAME Quiller couch, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quiller Couch, Arthur Thomas; Q (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and critic
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Bodmin , Cornwall
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1944
Place of death Fowey