Edgar Allison Peers

Edgar Allison Peers (born May 7, 1891 in Leighton Buzzard , Bedfordshire , † December 21, 1952 in Liverpool ) was a British Romanist and Hispanist .

life and work

Peers studied at Christ's College (Cambridge) . He first drew attention to himself with the award-winning writing Elizabethan Drama and its Mad Folk (Cambridge 1914).

He graduated in 1913 and became a high school teacher. In 1920 he went to the University of Liverpool , first as a lecturer, from 1922 until his death as Gilmour Professor of Spanish. In 1931 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1934 he founded the Institute of Hispanic Studies.

From 1923 until his death, Peers was the founding editor of the journal Bulletin of Spanish Studies (from 1949 Bulletin of Hispanic Studies ).

In several polemical writings, which he published under the pseudonym Bruce Truscot , Peers coined the term “red-brick university” (e.g. Liverpool, in contrast to the traditional and elitist universities like Oxford and Cambridge).

Since 2009 the University of Liverpool has held an annual symposium that bears his name ("E. Allison Peers Symposium in Hispanic Studies").

Works

Spanish mysticism

• Spanish mysticism. A preliminary survey , London 1924 (Spanish: El misticismo español, Buenos Aires 1947)
• Studies of the Spanish Mystics , 2 vols., London 1927-1930, 1951, 1960
• Behind that wall. An introduction to some classics of the interior life , New York 1948 (concerns Augustine von Hippo , Ramon Lull , Imitation of Christ , Jan van Ruysbroek , The Cloud of Ignorance , Ignatius of Loyola , Peter of Alcantara , Teresa of Ávila , John of the Cross , Francis de Sales , Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667), Henry Vaughan and Thomas Traherne (1637–1674))
• The Mystics of Spain , London 1951, Mineola 2002 (German: The Spanish Mystics , Zurich 1956)

Ramon Lull

* A life of Ramón Lull , London 1927

• Ramon Lull. A biography , London 1929
• Fool of love. The life of Ramon Lull , London 1946 (Catalan: Foll d'amor. La vida de Ramon Llull , Palma de Mallorca 1966)
• (Translator) Ramon Lull, Blanquerna , ed. by Robert Irwin, London 1988

John of the Cross

• St. John of the Cross , Cambridge 1932, 1961
• (Ed.) The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross , 3 vols., London 1934-1935
• Spirit of flame. A study of St. John of the Cross , London 1943, 1946, 1961, New York 1944 (Spanish: San Juan de la Cruz. Espíritu de llama , Madrid 1950)
• St. John of the Cross, and other lectures and addresses, 1920-1945 , London 1946
• (Ed. And translator) The Poems of St. John of the Cross , London 1947

Teresa of Avila

• Mother of Carmel. A portrait of St. Teresa of Jesus , London 1945, 1946, 1961, 1979 (Spanish: Madre del Carmelo. Retrato de Santa Teresa de Jesús , Madrid 1948)
• (Ed. And translator) The complete works of Saint Teresa of Jesus , 3 vols., London 1946
• (Ed. And translator) The letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus , 2 vols., London 1950–1951
• Handbook to the life and times of St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross , London 1953
• Saint Teresa of Jesus and other essays and addresses , London 1953

Spanish romance

• (with Margery B. Finch) The Origins of French Romanticism , London 1920
• Rivas and romanticism in Spain , Liverpool 1923
• Angel de Saavedra, Duque de Rivas. A critical study , 2 vols., In: Revue Hispanique 58, 133-134, 1923
• Studies in the influence of Sir Walter Scott in Spain, in: Revue Hispanique 68, 153, 1926, pp. 1–160
• (Ed.) Les Poesies de Manuel de Cabanyes (1808-1833) , Barcelona 1933, Vilanova 1933, 1982
• The History of the Romantic Movement in Spain , 2 vols., Cambridge 1940, 1964, 2014 (Spanish: Historia del movimiento romántico español , 2 vols., Madrid 1967–1973)
• A Short history of the Romantic movement in Spain , Liverpool 1949, New York 1976

Spanish cultural studies, history, contemporary history

• Royal Seville , New York / London 1926
• Santander , London 1927
• Granada , London 1929
• (Ed.) Spain. A Companion to Spanish Travel , London / New York 1930
• The Pyrenees. French and Spanish , London 1932
• The Spanish Tragedy 1930-1936. Dictatorship. Republic. Chaos , London 1936 (Norwegian Oslo 1937)
• The Spanish tragedy 1930-1937. Dictatorship. Republic. Chaos. Rebellion. War , New York 1937
• Spain in eclipse 1937-1943. A sequel to The Spanish tragedy , London 1943, London 1945
• Catalonia infelix , London 1937, New York 1938, Westport 1970 (Catalan: Catalonia infelix = Dissortada Catalunya , Lleida 1986, Berga 2004)
• Our debt to Spain , London 1938
• Spain, the Church and the Orders , London 1939, 1945
• The Spanish Dilemma , London 1940

Textbooks / Didactics Spanish

• (Ed.) A phonetic Spanish reader. Extracts from great writers selected and transcribed , Manchester 1920
• A skeleton Spanish grammar, London / Glasgow 1922, 1944
• Spanish Free Composition , London 1925, Boston 1928
• Intermediate Spanish composition , New York 1932
• (Ed.) Spain. A Companion to Spanish Studies , London 1929, 1948, 1956
• (Ed.) A Handbook to the Study and Teaching of Spanish , London 1938
• Spanish-now , London 1944
• "New" tongues. Or, Modern language teaching of the future , London 1945

Further editing activities

• (Ed.) La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes , London 1923
• (Ed.) A Spanish Poetry Book for School and Home , London 1924
• (Ed.) La Batalla de Roncesvalles, and other romances , London 1924
• (Ed.) From Cadalso to Rubén Darío , Liverpool 1940
• (Ed.) Spanish golden age poetry and drama , Liverpool 1946
• (Ed.) A Critical Anthology of Spanish Verse , London 1948

Polemics under the pseudonym Bruce Truscot

• Redbrick University , London 1943
• Redbrick and these Vital Days , London 1945
• First Year at the University , London 1946

literature

• William Christopher Atkinson , 'Peers, Edgar Allison (1891–1952), in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Redbrick University revisited. The autobiography of Bruce Truscot , ed. by Ann L. Mackenzie and Adrian R. Allan, Liverpool 1996
• Spain and its literature. Essays in memory of E. Allison Peers , ed. by Ann L. Mackenzie, Liverpool 1997
• Malcolm Kevin Read, Educating the Educators. Hispanism and Its Institutions , Newark 2003 (chapter: “Allison Peers. For God, king, and country”)

Web links

• Literature by and about Edgar Allison Peers in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)