Watson, George (Grimes)

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WATSON, George (Grimes)

WATSON, George (Grimes). British (born Australia), b. 1927. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Bibliography. Career: St. John's College, Cambridge University, Sandars Reader in Bibliography, University Lecturer in English, 1959-90, Fellow. Publications: The Literary Critics, 1962; Coleridge the Poet, 1966; The Study of Literature, 1969; The English Ideology: Studies in the Language of Victorian Politics, 1973; Politics and Literature in Modern Britain, 1977; The Discipline of English, 1978; Modern Literary Thought, 1978; The Story of the Novel, 1979; The Idea of Liberalism, 1985; Writing a Thesis, 1987; The Certainty of Literature, 1989; British Literature since 1945, 1991; Lord Acton's History of Liberty, 1994; The Lost Literature of Socialism, 1998; Never Ones for Theory?: England and the War of Ideas, 2000. EDITOR: Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, 1956; The Unservile State, 1957; Concise Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 1958; Radical Alternative, 1962; The English Mind: Studies in the English Moralists Presented to Basil Willey, 1964; M. Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent, 1964; The English Petrarchans, 1967; New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Vols. I-III, 1969-74, shorter edition, 1981. Address: St. John's College, Cambridge CB2 1TP, England.