Elsie Duncan-Jones
British literary scholar
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| Intro | British literary scholar | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
| was | Scholar Literary scholar | |
| Work field | Academia Literature | |
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| Birth | 2 July 1908 | |
| Death | 7 April 2003 (aged 94 years) |
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Biography
Elsie Elizabeth Duncan-Jones (née Phare; 2 July 1908 - 7 April 2003) was a British literary scholar and authority on the poet Andrew Marvell.
She married in 1933 the philosopher Austin Duncan-Jones; they had two children, the ancient historian Richard Duncan-Jones, and the Shakespeare scholar Katherine Duncan-Jones.
Works
- The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins; a survey and commentary, 1933
- 'Ash Wednesday', in Balachandra Rajan, ed., T.S. Eliot, a study of his writings by several hands, 1947
- The poems and letters of Andrew Marvell, 1971
- A great master of words : some aspects of Marvell's poems of praise and blame, 1975