Jack Arthur Walter Bennett

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J. A. W. Bennett (* 28. February 1911 in Auckland , New Zealand ; † 29. January 1981 in Los Angeles , California ) was a literary scholar , philologist and professor of English at the University of Cambridge . He wrote his writings as JAW Bennett .

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Bennett attended the Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland from 1925 to 1928. In 1927/28 he wrote several award-winning essays there and his poem "Envoi" from 1928 was set to music the following year. He studied at the local university , where he specialized in the study of the English language. He graduated with honors and received a scholarship to Merton College , Oxford. He graduated as Dr. Phil. From.

During the Second World War Bennett worked for the British Information Service in New York. On his return in 1947 he was initially a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College , which is one of the older colleges at Oxford University . Here he was a colleague of the writer and professor CS Lewis , with whom he temporarily met in the association of the " Inklings ". In 1963, after Lewis' death, he moved to Cambridge . From 1964 to 1978 he was a Fellow and Professor of Medieval English at Magdalene College at the university there.

Bennett made a name for himself as a scholar in Middle English literature. He was also the editor of the magazine "Medium Aevum" from 1956 to 1980. His diverse works include works on "Middle English Literature" and "Oxford History of English Literature", which were published in 1986 after his death.

Bennett's death

Bennett presumably died in early 1981. For him a funeral mass was read in Cambridge in February 1981 and in May Emrys Jones, Fellow of Magdalen College, conducted a funeral service in the chapel there in Oxford.

Honors

  • Award in English and history as "Lissie Rathbone Scholar", a prize for humanities.
  • In 1971 he was made a Fellow of the British Academy .
  • In 1976 Bennett was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
  • In 2008 he was inducted into the Hall of Distinction of the Mount Albert Grammar School for his "Services to Philology" .

Fonts (selection)

  • JAW Bennett, CS Lewis: The humane medievalist: an inaugural lecture. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1965, OCLC 1483551 .
  • JAW Bennett: Early Middle English verse and prose. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1968, ISBN 0-19-811493-1 .
  • JAW Bennett: Poetry of the Passion: studies in twelve centuries of English verse. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1982, ISBN 0-19-812804-5 .
  • JAW Bennett, Douglas Gray: Middle English literature. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1986 ISBN 0-19-812214-4 .

literature

  • Emrys Jones, Simon Barrington-Ward: Tributes to JAW Bennett. (Manuscript).
  • Piero Boitani, Anna Torti: Literature in Fourteenth-Century England: The JAW Bennett Memorial Lectures, Perugia, 1981–1982. Fool, Tübingen; Brewer, Cambridge 1983, ISBN 0-85991-151-9 .
  • PL Heyworth: Medieval Studies for JAW Bennett: aetatis suae LXX. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1981, ISBN 1-280-76354-X .
  • Norman Davis: Jack Arthur Walter Bennett, 1911–1981. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1983, ISBN 0-85672-463-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to information from the German National Library GND 124031188 .
  2. ↑ Emma Plaskitt: Inklings (act. 1930–1960) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . September 28, 2006, doi : 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 92544 .
  3. ^ Bennett, JAW (Jack Arthur Walter), 1911-1981. ( Memento of December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on thecommunityarchive.org.nz, accessed on February 5, 2013.
  4. ^ Entry Bennett, Jack Arthur Walter (1911–1981) (PDF; 1.1 MB, p. 40) on amacad.org, accessed on February 5, 2013.
  5. ↑ Inductees - June 30, 2008 - Jack Arthur Walter Bennett. Mount Albert Grammar School, accessed April 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bennett, Jack Arthur Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bennett, JAW
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand literary scholar and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Auckland , New Zealand
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1981
Place of death Los Angeles , California