KERMODE, (John) Frank

KERMODE, (John) Frank. British, b. 1919. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Autobiography/Memoirs. Career: Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 1974-. General Ed., Modern Masters, Masterguides series, and Oxford Authors. John Edward Taylor Professor of English, Manchester University, 1958-65; Winterstoke Professor of English Literature, Bristol University, 1965-67; Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature, University College London, 1967-74; King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, Cambridge University, 1974-82. Publications: Romantic Image, 1957; Wallace Stevens, 1960, 1989; Puzzles and Epiphanies, 1962; The Sense of an Ending, 1967; Continuities, 1968; Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, 1971; Modern Essays, 1971; D.H. Lawrence, 1973; The Classic, 1975; The Genesis of Secrecy, 1979; The Art of Telling (essays), 1983; Forms of Attention, 1985; History and Value, 1988; An Appetite for Poetry, 1989; Poetry, Narrative, History, 1990; The Uses of Error, 1991; Not Entitled (memoir), 1995; Shakespeare's Language, 2000; Pleasing Myself, 2001; Pieces of My Mind, 2003. EDITOR: English Pastoral Poetry, 1952; Shakespeare: The Tempest, 1954; (and contrib.) The Living Milton, 1960; Discussions of John Donne, 1962; Edmund Spenser, 1964; Four Centuries of Shakespearean Criticism, 1965; Selected Poetry of Andrew Marvell, 1967; The Metaphysical Poets, 1969; King Lear: A Casebook, 1970; Poems of John Donne, 1970; (with R. Poirer) The Oxford Reader, 1971; (with J. Hollander) Oxford Anthology of English Literature, 1973; Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot, 1975; (with R. Alter) The Literary Guide to the Bible, 1987. Address: King's College, Cambridge CB2 1ST, England. Online address: [email protected]