page_title: Sherard Vines
hierarchical_section_title: Sherard Vines
caption_attribution_description: English: Recent photograph of English author and educator Walter Sherard Vines published in his book, Movements in modern English Poetry and Prose (Tokyo&#160;: Ohkayama Pub., 1927).
context_page_description: Walter Sherard Vines, known as Sherard Vines, was an English author and academic. He began publishing poetry in the 1910s, then in the 1920s spent five years teaching at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. While in Japan and after his return to England, where he took up a post at University College Hull, he continued to publish poetry, fiction and criticism. His works include The Course of English Classicism from the Tudor to Victorian Age, a study of classicism in British art; Yofuku, or, Japan in Trousers, a travel book about his experiences in Japan which was critical of aspects of Japanese culture; and A Hundred Years of English Literature, a survey of the literature of Britain, the British Empire and the United States.
context_section_description: Walter Sherard Vines (1890–1974), known as Sherard Vines, was an English author and academic. He began publishing poetry in the 1910s, then in the 1920s spent five years teaching at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. While in Japan and after his return to England, where he took up a post at University College Hull, he continued to publish poetry, fiction and criticism. His works include The Course of English Classicism from the Tudor to Victorian Age (1930), a study of classicism in British art; Yofuku, or, Japan in Trousers (1931), a travel book about his experiences in Japan which was critical of aspects of Japanese culture; and A Hundred Years of English Literature (1959), a survey of the literature of Britain, the British Empire and the United States.
caption: Vines in Japan, circa 1927
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