Helen Gardner

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Gender	Female
Death	38 years ago
Date of birth	February 13,1908
Zodiac sign	Aquarius
Born	Finchley
	London
	United Kingdom
Date of died	June 4,1986
Died	Bicester
	United Kingdom
Edited works	The metaphysical poets
	The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1950
	A book of religious verse
Education	St Hilda's College
Movies/Shows	Cleopatra
	A Princess of Bagdad
	Sandra
	A Tale of Two Cities
	A Reformed Santa Claus
Notabl work	The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1950
Date of Reg.	2019-09-26 01:04:03
Date of Upd.	2023-06-10 18:10:52
ID	1315016

The metaphysical poets
In defence of the imagination
The composition of Four quartets
Religion and Literature
Business of Criticism
A reading of Paradise lost
The Faber Book of Religious Verse
John Donne
The noble Moor
The limits of literary criticism
A book of religious verse
The Waste Land 1972: The Adamson Lecture, 3rd May 1972, University of Manchester
Edwin Muir
Poems in the Making: The First Gwilym James Memorial Lecture of the University of Southampton Delivered at the University on the 23rd May, 1972
King Lear
The Waste Land 1972

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Helen Gardner Life story

Dame Helen Louise Gardner, DBE, FBA was an English literary critic and academic. Gardner began her teaching career at the University of Birmingham, and from 1966 to 1975 was a Merton Professor of English Literature, the first woman to have that position.

No 10 turned down Larkin, Auden and other poets for laureate job

Jul 18,2023 8:41 pm

... Dame Helen Gardner, Merton Professor of English at Oxford, had some " fairly caustic" comments about the " present quality of poetry" and the " lack of any outstanding talent" the papers reveal...