Pollard, Arthur

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POLLARD, Arthur

POLLARD, Arthur. British, b. 1922. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Theology/Religion. Career: Assistant Lecturer, 1949-52, Lecturer, 1952-64, and Sr. Lecturer, 1964-67, University of Manchester; Professor of English, University of Hull, 1967-84; Consultant Professor of English, University of Buckingham, 1983-89. Publications: English Hymns, 1960; English Sermons, 1963; Mrs. Gaskell, Novelist and Biographer, 1965; Richard Hooker, 1966; Charlotte Bronte, 1968; Trollope's Political Novels, 1968; Satire, 1970; Anthony Trollope, 1978; The Victorian Period (excluding the novel), 1983; The Landscape of the Brontes, 1988. EDITOR: (with M.M. Hennell) Charles Simeon 1759-1836, 1959; Let Wisdom Judge: University Addresses and Sermon Outlines by Charles Simeon, 1959; New Poems of George Crabbe, 1960; Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, 1964; (with J.A.V. Chapple) The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell, 1966; The Victorians, vol. 6 of the Sphere History of Literature in the English Language, 1970; Crabbe: The Critical Heritage, 1972; Webster's New World Companion to English and American Literature, 1973; Silver Poets of the Eighteenth Century, 1976; Thackeray: Vanity Fair: A Casebook, 1978; Marvell's Poems: A Casebook, 1980; (with N. Dalrymple-Champneys) The Complete Poetical Works of George Crabbe, 3 vols, 1988; R. Hooker, Ecclesiastical Polity: Selections, 1990; H. Latimer, The Sermons, 2000. Died 2002.

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