Owen, W(arwick) J(ack) B(urgoyne) 1916-2002
OWEN, W(arwick) J(ack) B(urgoyne) 1916-2002
OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born May 12, 1916, in Aukland, New Zealand; died November 20, 2002. Educator and author. Owen was a noted scholar of poet William Wordsworth. Educated at the University of Aukland where he received a master's degree in 1938, he was an assistant lecturer in English there for a year before moving to England to study at Oxford University. At Oxford he earned another master's degree in 1946, and at the University of Wales he completed his doctorate in 1955. During World War II Owen served with the British Army's Royal Army Ordnance Corps and the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, seeing action in North Africa and Italy and attaining the rank of captain. Beginning in 1946 he was a lecturer in English at University College, Bangor, in North Wales, leaving for Canada in 1965 to teach at McMaster University. At McMaster Owen was a professor of English until his retirement in 1981. Fascinated by English poet William Wordsworth, all of Owen's published books focus on this subject, among them Wordsworth as Critic (1969) and the edited works Lyrical Ballads, 1798 (1967; second edition, 1969) and The Fourteen-Book Prelude (1985).
OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:
books
Lumley, Elizabeth, editor, Canadian Who's Who, Volume 36, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2001.
periodicals
Times (London, England), December 26, 2002.