Robert Sencourt
Robert Esmonde Gordon George (8 September 1890 – 1969), better known by the pen name of Robert Sencourt,[1] was a British literary critic, historian and biographer.
Biography
Robert Sencourt was born in New Zealand, the son of merchant James Cartwright George and Annie (née Nicholls). He was educated in Auckland and later at Oxford for his M.A. and B.Litt. He taught in India and Portugal before serving as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and professor of English literature at the Egyptian University (1933–1936).
Sencourt wrote widely, especially in the fields of English literature, Christian mysticism and Spanish history. He had been at Oxford with T. S. Eliot in 1914, but somehow didn't meet him until 1927. Sencourt became Eliot's friend for twenty years and later Eliot's first biographer. He contributed to a large variety of periodicals, such as The Aryan Path, The Criterion, the Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, Revue de Paris, The Atlantic Monthly, North American Review, The Bookman and Commonweal.
Works
Major publications
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- India in English Literature (1920)[2]
- Purse and Politics (1921)
- Outflying Philosophy (1924)
- The Life of George Meredith (1929)[3]
- The Life of the Empress Eugénie (1931)
- Spain's Uncertain Crown: The Story of the Spanish Sovereigns, 1808-1931 (1932)
- Napoleon III: The Modern Emperor (1933)
- ''Conversations with Napoleon III: A Collection of Documents Mostly Unpublished and Almost Entirely Diplomatic (1934; editor; with Victor Wellesley)[4]
- The Genius of the Vatican (1935)
- Italy (1938)
- Winston Churchill (1940)
- King Alfonso (1942)
- Carmelite and Poet: A Framed Portrait of St. John of the Cross (1943)
- The Consecration of Genius (1947)
- Saint Paul, Envoy of Grace (1948)
- Life of Newman (1948)
- Heirs of Tradition: Tributes of a New Zealander (1949)
- T. S. Eliot. A Memoir (1971; edited by Donald Adamson)
Selected articles
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- "Can Europe’s States Unite," Thought, Vol. III, No 2 (1928)
- "The New Position of the Vatican," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CXLIV (1929)
- "The Poetry of Edith Wharton," Bookman, Vol. CXXIII (1931)
- "Geneva Reconsidered," Contemporary Review, Vol. CLIV (1938)
- "How Spain's War Ends," Contemporary Review, Vol. CLV (1939)
- "How Spain and Italy Act," Contemporary Review, Vol. CLVI (1939)
- "Newman and Pusey," The Dublin Review, Vol. CCXVII, No. 435 (1945)
- "Byron and Shelley in Venice," Quarterly Review, No. 285 (1947)
- "The Lake of Geneva," Contemporary Review, Vol. CLXXX (1951)
- "Should a Christian be a Freemason?," Theology, Vol. LIV, No. 373 (1951)
- "Turner & Ruskin," Contemporary Review, Vol. CLXXXI (1952)
- "The Foreign Policy of Neville Chamberlain," Quarterly Review, No. 600 (April, 1954)
Notes
- ↑ Rhodes, Dennis E.; Anna E. C. Simoni (1956). Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature, Vol. 8. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.
- ↑ Rice, Stanley (1926). "India in English Literature," Asiatic Review, Vol. XXII, pp. 485–93.
- ↑ Translated into French by Georges Luciani (1903–1981), professor of Russian and Polish at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Bordeaux.
- ↑ Victor Alexander Augustus Henry Wellesley (1876–1954) was a diplomatist born at the British embassy in Saint Petersburg.
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- 1890 births
- 1969 deaths
- 20th-century British biographers
- 20th-century British male writers
- Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
- British military personnel of World War I
- Cairo University faculty
- Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism
- People educated at St John's College, Auckland
