Dudley Butler Wilson

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Dudley Butler Wilson (born January 22, 1923 in Manchester , † June 28, 1995 in Durham ) was a British Romance studies and French studies .

life and work

Wilson studied French and German at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge (graduated in 1947). Then he went to the Sorbonne and received his doctorate there in 1952 with the dissertation La poésie champêtre chez Pierre de Ronsard . He taught from 1950 to 1953 at the University of Aberdeen and from 1953 to 1988 at the University of Durham (from 1969 as reader, from 1980 as professor).

Works

  • Ronsard. Poet of Nature , Manchester, University Press, 1961.
  • Descriptive poetry in France from blason to baroque , Manchester, University Press, 1967.
  • (Ed.) French Renaissance Scientific Poetry , London, Athlone, 1974.
  • (Ed. With others) Studies in the French eighteenth century, presented to John Lough by colleagues, pupils and friends , Durham 1978.
  • (with Alison Saunders) Catalog des poésies françaises de la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 1501-1600 , Paris, Éditions du Center national de la recherche scientifique, 1985.
  • Signs and portents. Monstrous births from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment , London, Routledge, 1993.

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personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Dudley Butler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romance studies and French studies
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1995
Place of death Durham