Raymond L. Brett

Raymond Laurence Brett (10 January 1917 – 6 December 1996)[1] was Professor of English at University of Hull and a friend of Philip Larkin. He produced an edition of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads which went through two further editions. Some of his many other publications are listed below.[2]

Education

He attended Bristol Cathedral School and University of Bristol and in 1940 received a B.Litt from University College, Oxford

Academic career

After working in the Admiralty, from 1940 to 1946, he was a Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol, from 1946 to 1952 and G. F. Grant Professor of English, University of Hull, 1952–1982 and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hull from 1960 to 1962

He held a number of Visiting Professorships: University of Rochester, USA, 1958–1959; Kiel University, University of Osnabrück, 1977; University of Baroda, Jadavpur University, 1978; University of Ottawa, 1981.

He received an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from the University of Hull in 1983.

Publications

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