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Watson/5/30
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- 1954 - 2013 (Creation)
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Paper.
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Name of creator
Biographical history
George Grimes Watson was born in Brisbane, Australia, on 13 October 1927. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in 1948 with a degree in English. He secured a scholarship for a second degree and received an English degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1950; he worked for the European Commission as an interpreter before becoming a lecturer in English at Cambridge in 1959 and a Fellow of St John's College in 1961. He remained at St John's until his death on 2 August 2013.
Watson edited 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. As well as producing wide-ranging literary and cultural criticism, he was involved in leftist politics, campaigning as a Liberal candidate in 1959 and 1979 and working as Editor for the Unservile State Group; his political writing often critiques socialism from a liberal perspective.
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Scope and content
This subseries contains cuttings, copies and notes connected to George Watson's research and not filed by him with papers pertaining to specific projects (such as those represented earlier in this series). This should not be taken to mean that the material is necessarily unrelated to said projects. Note that offprints of work by other authors are sequenced in Watson/6.
A few items of indeterminate topic have been grouped in the opening '[Miscellaneous]' folder; the rest have been grouped by the cataloguer according as appropriate to topic or author, some more approximately than others, as represented by the list below.
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[Miscellaneous]
C.S. Lewis (notebook)
Medieval English (notebook)
Aristotle
Matthew Arnold
W.H. Auden
Jane Austen
Honoré de Balzac
John Batchelor
F.W. Bateson
Saul Bellow
Lord Berners
Cyril Bibby
Donald F. Bond
J.S. Boys Smith
Robert Bridges
Broadside Ballads
Robert Browning
Edmund Burke
Kenneth Burke
Fanny Burney
Samuel Butler
Lord Byron
Lewis Carroll
Whittaker Chambers
Chapters
Cicero
J.C.D. Clark
Edward, Earl of Clarendon
Sybil, Lady Colefax
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Charles Dickens
John Donne
John Dryden
Ebner-Eschenbach, Goethe, Lichtenberg, Nietzsche
Maria Edgeworth
T.S. Eliot
William Empson
Clive Emsley
'Encounter'
Joseph Epstein
Robert Ferguson
Henry Fielding
French literature
Elizabeth Gaskell
John Gay
Ernest Gellner
Edward Gibbon
Jean Giraudoux
Germaine Greer
Andrea Guarna
Thom Gunn / Donald Davie
Thomas Hardy
Adolf Hitler
Graham Hough
The House of Commons
David Hume
Indices
Irony
Giles Jacob
Harold Jeffreys
James Joyce
Immanuel Kant
Elia Kazan
John Keats
Frank Kermode
Rudyard Kipling
Arthur Koestler
Karl Kraus
Henry Labouchere / William Gladstone
William Langland
Emmet Larkin
Philip Larkin
Thomas Leaver
F.R. Leavis
Giacomo Leopardi
Bernard Levin
C.S. Lewis
George Cornewall Lewis / Thomas Carlyle
Wyndham Lewis
Literary theory
John Llewellyn
Lucan
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Niccolò Machiavelli
Louise MacNeice
Herbert Marcuse
Pierre de Marivaux
P.J. Marshall
W. Somerset Maugham
Thomas May
Mary Midgley
John Stuart Mill
John Milton
Molière
Michel de Montaigne
Thomas More
Mottoes in novels
Edwin Muir
Tim Munby
Iris Murdoch
NiL Éditions
Parody & imitation
Mark Pattison
Samuel Pepys
Pierre Joseph Proudhon
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Repetition
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edward Said
Jean-Paul Sartre
Inge Scholl
Walter Scott
William Shakespeare
Mary Shelley
Sichuan University Press
Quentin Skinner
Adam Smith
Ed Smith
John Smith
Jonathan Smith
Sydney Smith
George Sydney Smythe
Socialism
Edmund Spenser
Ewald Standop
George Steiner
Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully
Algernon Charles Swinburne / Charles Baudelaire
Allen Tate
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas
Alexis de Tocqueville
Leo Tolstoy
Thomas Tomkis
Philip Toynbee
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Diana & Lionel Trilling
Ivan Turgenev
George Vertue
'Virginia Quarterly Review'
Richard Wagner
Abraham Moritz Warburg
William Whewell
T.H. White
Nathaniel Wibarn
William Wilberforce
Angus Wilson
Edgar Wind
Yvor Winters
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Virginia Woolf
William Wordsworth
W.B. Yeats