Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Biography - Poem Hunter Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Biography - Poem Hunter Biography Biography of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was born on November 21, 1863 in Cornwall. He was a British writer, who published under the pen name of "Q". Quiller-Couch received a degree from Trinity College, Oxford and later became a lecturer there. While he was at Oxford he published Dead Man’s Rock (1887), and followed this with the 1888 publication of Troy Town and in 1889, The Splendid Spur. His later novels included The Blue Pavilions (1891), The Ship of Stars (1899), Hetty Wesley (1903), The Adventures of Harry Revel (1903), Fort Amity (1904), The Shining Ferry (1905), and Sir John Constantine (1906). In 1898 he completed Robert Louis Stevenson’s unfinished novel, St Ives. While in Oxford he was known as a writer of excellent verse.

His poetical work is contained in Poems and Ballads (1896). In 1895 he published an anthology from the 16th and 17th-century English lyrists, The Golden Pomp, followed in 1900 by an equally successful Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250—1900 (1900). He was knighted in 1910, also that year publishing The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales from the Old French. He received a professorship of English at The University of Cambridge in 1912, which he retained for the rest of his life, later becoming Chair of English. This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch; it is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License . You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the CC-BY-SA.

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Poems Arthur Quiller-Couch, Writer • Biography & Facts Arthur Quiller-Couch Writer Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (/ˌkwɪlərˈkuːtʃ/; 21 November 1863 – 12 May 1944) was a British writer who published under the pen name of Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is primarily remembered for the monumental Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900 (later extended to 1918) and for his literary criticism. He guided the taste of many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff , author of 84, Charing Cross Road and its sequel, Q's Legacy; and the fictional Horace Rumpole, via John Mortimer , his literary amanuensis.

Arthur Quiller-Couch - iSnare Free Encyclopedia Arthur Quiller-Couch Arthur Thomas Quiller Couch [1] (1863-11-21)21 November 1863 Bard of Gorseth Kernow (1928) Signature Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch ( /ˌkwɪlərˈkuːtʃ/ ; 21 November 1863 – 12 May 1944) was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900 (later extended to 1918) and for his literary criticism . He influenced many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff , author of 84, Charing Cross Road and its sequel, Q's Legacy. [2] His Oxford Book of English Verse was a favourite of John Mortimer 's fictional character Horace Rumpole .

Contents Memorial in Truro Cathedral Quiller-Couch was born in the town of Bodmin , Cornwall , by the union of two ancient local families, the Quiller family and the Couch family, He was educated at Newton Abbot Proprietary College, at Clifton College , and Trinity College, Oxford , where he took a First in Classical Moderations (1884) and a Second in Greats (1886). [12] From 1886 he was for a brief time a classical lecturer at Trinity. After some journalistic experience in London , mainly as a contributor to the Speaker, he settled in 1891 at Fowey in Cornwall. In Cornwall he was an active political worker for the Liberal Party . He was knighted in 1910, and in 1928 was made a Bard of the Cornish cultural society Gorseth Kernow , adopting the Bardic name Marghak Cough ('Red Knight'). He was Commodore of the Royal Fowey Yacht Club from 1911 until his death. Quiller-Couch died in May 1944 after being hit by a jeep near his home in Cornwall in the preceding March.

[13] He is buried in Fowey 's parish church of St. Fimbarrus . [14] Literary and academic career A handwritten letter from Quiller-Couch to Siegfried Sassoon , about the possibility of Quiller-Couch writing for The Daily Herald Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch Monument, Fowey In 1887, while he was attending Oxford, he published Dead Man's Rock, a romance in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island , and later Troy Town (1888), a comic novel set in a fictionalised version of his home town Fowey, and The Splendid Spur (1889). Quiller-Couch was well known for his story "The Rollcall of the Reef", based on the wreck of HMS Primrose during 1809 on the Cornish coast. He published during 1896 a series of critical articles, Adventures in Criticism, and in 1898 he published a completion of Robert Louis Stevenson's unfinished novel, St. Ives . From his Oxford time he was known as a writer of excellent verse.

With the exception of the parodies entitled Green Bays (1893), his poetical work is contained in Poems and Ballads (1896). In 1895 he published an anthology from the 16th- and 17th-century English lyricists, The Golden Pomp, followed in 1900 by the Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900 . In 1910 he published The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales from the Old French. He was the author of a number of popular novels with Cornish settings (collected edition as 'Tales and Romances', 30 vols. 1928–29). He was appointed King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge in 1912, and retained the chair for the rest of his life. Simultaneously he was elected to a Fellowship of Jesus College , which he held until his death. His inaugural lectures as the professor of English literature were published as the book On the Art of Writing. His rooms were on staircase C, First Court, and known as the 'Q-bicle'.

He supervised the beginnings of the English Faculty there — an academic diplomat in a fractious community. He is sometimes regarded as the epitome of the school of English literary criticism later overthrown by F. R. Leavis . [17] Alistair Cooke was a notable student of Quiller-Couch and Nick Clarke's semi-official biography of Cooke features Quiller-Couch prominently, noting that he was regarded by the Cambridge establishment as "rather eccentric" even by the university's standards. Quiller-Couch was a noted literary critic, publishing editions of some of Shakespeare's plays (in the New Shakespeare, published by Cambridge University Press , with Dover Wilson ) and several critical works, including Studies in Literature (1918) and On the Art of Reading (1920). He edited a companion to his verse anthology: The Oxford Book of English Prose, which was published in 1923. He left his autobiography , Memories and Opinions, unfinished; it was nevertheless published in 1945. Legacy His Book of English Verse is often quoted by John Mortimer's fictional character Horace Rumpole .

Castle Dor , a re-telling of the Tristan and Iseult myth in modern circumstances, was left unfinished at Quiller-Couch's death and was completed many years later by Daphne du Maurier . As she wrote in the Sunday Telegraph on April 1962, she began the job with considerable trepidation, at the request of Quiller-Couch's daughter and "in memory of happy evenings long ago when 'Q' was host at Sunday supper". [18] He features as a main character, played by Leo McKern , in the 1992 BBC television feature The Last Romantics. [19] The story focuses on his relationship with his protégé, F. R. Leavis, and the students. His Cambridge inaugural lecture series, published as On the Art of Writing, is the source of the popular writers' adage "murder your darlings". [20] He is mentioned briefly in The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde as one of the few authors with a name beginning with the letter "Q".

It is Quiller-Couch who originated the saying "kill your darlings": “ If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: ‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. [21] ” Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur (2000) [1916]. "XII. On Style" . On the Art of Writing: Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1913–1914 (Online ed.). Bartleby.com. ¶6. Retrieved 3 March 2012. ^ Wickman, Forrest. Who Really Said You Should “Kill Your Darlings”? Slate. Oct. 8, 2013. Accessed Jan. 10, 2017. ^ Richard Greene, ‘Wright , Mehetabel (1697–1750)’, rev. William R.

Jones, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2009 accessed 16 February 2015 Sources Brittain, Frederick, Arthur Quiller-Couch, a Biographical Study of Q (Cambridge: University Press, 1947) Quiller-Couch, A. T., Memories and Opinions (Unfinished; it was nevertheless published in 1945 though only the years up to 1887 are covered.) Rowse, A. L. , Quiller-Couch: a Portrait of "Q" (1988) Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). " Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas ". Encyclopædia Britannica . 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 750–751. Further reading Archer, William (1902). "A.T. Quiller-Cough." In: Poets of the Younger Generation. New York: John Lane, the Bodley Head, pp. 94–104. Joshi, S.T. (2004).

"Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch': Ghosts and Scholars". In: The Evolution of the Weird Tale. New York: Hippocampus Press, pp. 49–52. Mais, S.P.B. (1920). "'Q' as Critic." In: Books and their Writers. London: Grant Richards, pp. 200–230. External links Adventures in Criticism : Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch : 9781503024205 Try AbeBooks Description Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch ( 21 November 1863 - 12 May 1944) was a British writer who published under the pen name of Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is primarily remembered for the monumental Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250-1900 (later extended to 1918) and for his literary criticism.

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Publication: May 14 1944 - Perth, Western Australia, Australia Page: About Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller Couch Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller - Couch From Wikipedia Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (/ˌkwɪlərˈkuːtʃ/; 21 November 1863 – 12 May 1944) was a British writer who published under the pen name of Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is primarily remembered for the monumental Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900 (later extended to 1918) and for his literary criticism. He guided the taste of many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff, author of 84, Charing Cross Road and its sequel, Q's Legacy;[1] and the fictional Horace Rumpole, via John Mortimer, his literary amanuensis. Life Quiller-Couch was born at Bodmin in Cornwall to the union of two ancient local families, the Quiller family and the Couch family,[2][3] and was the third in a line of intellectuals from the Couch family. His younger sisters Florence Mabel and Lilian M.

were also writers and folklorists.[4][5] His father, Dr. Thomas Quiller Couch (d. 1884), was a noted physician, folklorist and historian.[5][6] His grandfather, Jonathan Couch, was an eminent naturalist, also a physician, historian, classicist, apothecary, and illustrator (particularly of fish) in the style of the time.[7] His son, Bevil Brian Quiller-Couch, was a war hero and poet, whose romantic letters to his fiancée, the poet May Wedderburn Cannan, were published in Tears of War.[8] He also had a daughter, Foy Felicia, to whom Kenneth Grahame inscribed a first edition of his The Wind in the Willows attributing Quiller-Couch as the inspiration for the character Ratty.[9] He was educated at Newton Abbot Preparatory College, at Clifton College, and Trinity College, Oxford and later became a lecturer there. On taking his degree in 1886 he was for a short time classical lecturer at Trinity.

After some journalistic experience in London, mainly as a contributor to the Speaker, in 1891 he settled at Fowey in Cornwall. In Cornwall he was an active worker in politics for the Liberal Party. He was knighted in 1910, and in 1928 was made a Bard of Gorseth Kernow, taking the Bardic name Marghak Cough ('Red Knight'). He was Commodore of the Royal Fowey Yacht Club from 1911 until his death. Quiller-Couch died in a road accident in May 1944 after being hit by a jeep near his home in Cornwall. He is buried in Fowey's parish church of St. Fimbarrus.[10] Literary and academic career In 1887, while he was at Oxford, he published Dead Man's Rock, a romance in the vein of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, and he followed this up with Troy Town (1888), a comic novel set in a fictionalised version of Fowey, and The Splendid Spur (1889).

Quiller-Couch was well known for his story "The Rollcall of the Reef", based on the wreck of HMS Primrose in 1809 on the Cornish coast. He published in 1896 a series of critical articles, Adventures in Criticism, and in 1898 he completed Robert Louis Stevenson’s unfinished novel, St. Ives. From his Oxford days he was known as a writer of excellent verse. With the exception of the parodies entitled Green Bays (1893), his poetical work is contained in Poems and Ballads (1896). In 1895 he published an anthology from the 16th- and 17th-century English lyricists, The Golden Pomp, followed in 1900 by the Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900.[11] Later editions of this extended the period covered up to 1918 and it remained the leading general anthology of English verse until Helen Gardner's New Oxford Book of English Verse appeared in 1972.[12] In 1910 he published The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales from the Old French.

He was the author of a number of popular novels with Cornish settings (collected edition as 'Tales and Romances', 30 vols. 1928–29). He was appointed to the King Edward VII Professorship of English Literature at the University of Cambridge in 1912, and retained it for the rest of his life. Simultaneously he was elected to a Fellowship of Jesus College, which he held until his death. His inaugural lectures as the professor of English literature were turned into the book On the Art of Writing. His rooms were on C staircase, First Court, and known as the 'Q-bicle'. He oversaw the beginnings of the English Faculty there — an academic diplomat in a fractious community. He is sometimes regarded as the epitome of the school of English literary criticism later overthrown by F. R. Leavis.[13] Alistair Cooke was a notable student of Quiller-Couch and Nick Clarke's semi-official biography of Cooke features Quiller-Couch prominently, noting that he was regarded by the Cambridge establishment as "rather eccentric" even by the university's standards.

Quiller-Couch was a noted literary critic, publishing editions of some of Shakespeare's plays (in the New Shakespeare, published by Cambridge University Press, with Dover Wilson) and several critical works, including Studies in Literature (1918) and On the Art of Reading (1920). He edited a successor to his verse anthology: Oxford Book of English Prose, which was published in 1923. He left his autobiography, Memories and Opinions, unfinished; it was nevertheless published in 1945. Legacy His Book of English Verse is often quoted by John Mortimer's fictional character Horace Rumpole. Castle Dor, a re-telling of the Tristan and Iseult myth in modern circumstances, was left unfinished at Quiller-Couch's death and was completed many years later by Daphne du Maurier.

As she wrote in the Sunday Telegraph on April 1962, she took up the job with considerable trepidation, at the request of Quiller-Couch's daughter and "in memory of happy evenings long ago when 'Q' was host at Sunday supper".[14] He features as a main character, played by Leo McKern, in the 1992 BBC television feature The Last Romantics.[15] The story focuses on his relationship with his protégé, F. R. Leavis, and the students. His Cambridge inaugural lecture series, published as On the Art of Writing, is the source of the popular writers' adage "murder your darlings".[16] He is mentioned briefly in The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde as one of the few authors with a name beginning with the letter "Q".

Works Fiction Dead Man's Rock (1887) Troy Town (1888) The Splendid Spur (1889) The Blue Pavilions (1891) St Ives (1898), completing an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson The Ship of Stars (1899) The Westcotes (1902) Hetty Wesley (1903) The Adventures of Harry Revel (1903) Fort Amity (1904) The Shining Ferry (1905) The Mayor of Troy (1906) Sir John Constantine (1906) True Tilda (1909) A collected edition of Q's fiction appeared as Tales and Romances (30 volumes, 1928–29) Verse Green Bays (1893) Poems and Ballads (1896) Criticism and anthologies The Golden Pomp, a procession of English lyrics from Surrey to Shirley (1895) Adventures in Criticism (1896) Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900 also online (1900) From a

 Cornish Window (1906) English Sonnets (1910) The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales from the Old French (1910) The Oxford Book of Ballads (1911) In Powder and Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales Retold (1913) On the Art of Writing (1916) Notes on Shakespeare's Workmanship (1917) Studies in Literature First Series and Second Series (1918) On the Art of Reading (1920) The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1922) Oxford Book of English Prose (1923) Autobiography Memories and Opinions (unfinished, published 1945) References Hanff, Helene (5 August 1986).

Q's Legacy. London: Penguin Books Ltd. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-14-008936-3. Retrieved 3 March 2012. Johns, Jeremy Rowett (2000). "The QUILLER family of Polperro". Polperro Heritage Museum. Retrieved 2 March 2012. Johns, Jeremy Rowett (2000). "The COUCH family of Polperro". Polperro Heritage Museum. Retrieved 2 March 2012. Somerville, Christopher (5 November 2006). "Well founded belief in the magic of water" (newspaper). The Age (Melbourne) (5 November 2006). Retrieved 3 March 2012. Quiller-Couch, Mabel; Quiller-Couch, Lilian (2009) [1894]. Ancient And Holy Wells Of Cornwall. Tamara Publications. ISBN 978-1-902395-09-8. Retrieved 3 December 2013.

Cornish Library #18 Facsimile edition of the original edition published in 1894. Written by Mabel and Lillian Quiller-Couch using their father Thomas Quiller-Couch's notes, following in his footsteps on what he called his 'pilgrimage' JULY 2003 Royal Institution of Cornwall (23 November 1864). "Antiquarian and Literary Intelligence". The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review (London: John Henry and James Parker) 216 (January–June, 1864): 68. Retrieved 3 March 2012. Couch, Bertha (1891). Life of Jonathan Couch, F.L.S., Etc., of Polperro, The Cornish Ichthyologist. Liskeard: John Philp. p. 160. Cannan, May (November 2002). "Tears of War:The Story of a Young Poet and a War Hero". Cavalier Books.

Auctioned by Bonhams on Tuesday 23 March 2010 for £32,400: Flood, Alison (24 March 2010). "First edition of The Wind in the Willows sells for £32,400". guardian.co.uk. Archived from the original on 26 March 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2010. "Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - Find a Grave". findagrave.com. Retrieved 29 November 2013. Of the original edition nearly half a million copies were issued, according to the introduction to the NOBEV, 1972. The extended edition appeared in 1939; NOBEV, p. v. In 1939 the content was revised: about 40 poems were then omitted from the first three-quarters of the book and about 40 others added; in the rest about 70 poems were added and roughly the same number omitted; more poems were added to represent the first 18 years of the 20th century; NOBEV, p. v.

Woodcock, George (Winter 1974). "Old and New Oxford Books: The Idea of an Anthology". The Sewanee Review (The Johns Hopkins University Press) 82 (1): 119–130. Retrieved 3 December 2013. Eagleton, Terry (1983). Literary Theory. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 30. ISBN 0-631-13259-7. Eagleton contrasts the "patrician dilettantes" and "devotees of Sir Arthur Quiller Couch" [sic, no hyphen], with the "offspring of the provincial bourgeoisie" ... "entering the traditional universities for the first time". The Leavisites, says Eagleton, had not "suffered the crippling disadvantages of a purely literary education of the Quiller Couch kind". du Maurier, Daphne; Quiller-Couch, Arthur, Sir (1979) [1962]. "Sunday Telegraph article published as introduction". Castle Dor (1979 ed.). ""Screen Two" The Last Romantics (TV episode 1992) – IMDb".

Retrieved 3 March 2012. A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University. Quiller-Couch, Arthur, Sir (28 January 1914) [1916]. "XII. On Style". On the Art of Writing: Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, 1913–1914. London: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 12, Paragraph 6. ISBN 978-0-521-73682-4. Retrieved 3 March 2012. Sources Brittain, Frederick, Arthur Quiller-Couch, a Biographical Study of Q (Cambridge: University Press, 1947) Quiller-Couch, A. T., Memories and Opinions (Unfinished; it was nevertheless published in 1945 though only the years up to 1887 are covered.) Rowse, A.

L., Quiller-Couch: a Portrait of "Q" (1988) Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Further reading Archer, William Poets of the Younger Generation (New York, 1902) Joshi, S. T., "Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch': Ghosts and Scholars" in S. T. Joshi (ed.), The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004), 49-52. Quiller-Couch, A. T., Quiller-Couch's lectures on the art of writing External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Arthur Quiller-Couch.

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch Works by Arthur Quiller-Couch at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Arthur Quiller-Couch at Internet Archive Works by Arthur Quiller-Couch at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Speaker Icon.svg On the Art of Writing Arthur Quiller-Couch at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database The Warwickshire Avon by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch New York : Harper & Bros. Archival material relating to Arthur Quiller-Couch listed at the UK National Archives 'Quiller-Couch Family Papers' at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. 'Quiller-Couch', dedicated website Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller Couch's Timeline 1863 arthur quiller couch | Tumblr arthur quiller couch Grid View List View 7 Last month, we made a post featuring some of the work of Arthur Rackham , one of the preeminent British illustrators of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This month, we’ve decided to feature a few other similarly prolific illustrators from that time period. These Edmund Dulac illustrations come from Arthur Quiller-Couch’s 1910 edition of The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales.

Loading... Show more notes Reblog Reproduced as the final colour plate within the volume of fairy tales, retold by Quiller-Couch, entitled In Powder and Crinoline ( first published in 1913). The drawing is titled ‘Czarina’s Archery ’ within the printed book and accompanies the story ‘The Czarina’s Violet ’. In his preface to the book, Arthur Quiller-Couch wrote : “ The genius of the young artist who has illustrated this book may be left to speak for itself, as it assuredly will…” Illustration : Kay Nielsen. Reblog 7 Like Arthur Rackham , Kay Nielsen was an illustrator whose works were very popular in the early 20th century, during what’s called the “golden age” of children’s illustration. His work was often featured in deluxe gift editions filled with numerous, large, full-color illustrations, like this 1923 edition of The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

Reblog 3 “… the function of the anthologist includes criticizing in silence.“ – Sir Arthur Quiller Couch (1863 - 1944), Literary critic, novelist and editor of many fine books, including the original edition of The Oxford Book of English Verse. Reblog 4 A few pages from “Cinderella” in The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, with illustrations by Edmund Dulac: published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Our copy is one of an inexpensive edition published for Boots UK (then the Boots Pure Drug Company Ltd, Nottingham). This provenance itself is of interest. From Colin Wilson’s Snobbery with Violence: The Boots Booklovers’ Library was begun in 1899, at the instigation of the first wife of the manufacturing chemist, Jesse Boot. More than two hundred of the firm’s branches were equipped with library facilities by 1909. In the mid-1930s, when circulating libraries were at the peak of their popularity, there were book sections in four hundred and fifty branch shops. From the beginning, the Boots Library was operated on a “loss leader” principle.

Shelves were always at the back of the shop and as subscribers passed through to change their books they became potential customers at the chemists’ counters. The subscription was kept deliberately low. Originally half a guinea a year, it increased only slowly to thirty shillings. The service was being used by between a quarter and a half a million people in the 1930s, despite competition from the new chain libraries, and it has been claimed that the library was buying for its 340 branches one and a quarter million books a year at one period. It was the last nationwide circulating library to succumb to the social and economic changes after the second world war: final closure came in February 1966. Loading... Show more notes Reblog The end-of-term inundation of work, and a stream of days and nights delineated by emotion alone: anxiety and reprieve, frustration and exaltation - and amidst it, like the haunting memory of a dream, I hear whispered that ancient call that Quiller-Couch once spoke of, and I persevere in the eternal hope of finding that low door in the wall that others have found before me… Know you her secret none can utter?

Hers of the Book, the tripled Crown? Still on the spire the pigeons flutter; Still by the gateway flits the gown; Still on the street, from corbel and gutter, Faces of stone look down. The Arthur Quiller-Couch Fiction Collection eBook by Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1230000488884 | Kobo Or, get it for 2400 Kobo Super Points! See if you have enough points for this eBook. Sign in Synopsis Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (21 November 1863 – 12 May 1944) was a British writer who published under the pen name of Q. In this collection you will find 15 of his published Fiction works: Dead Man's Rock (1887) Brother Copas : Arthur Quiller-couch : 9781434425379 Add to basket Add to wishlist Description Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863 -1944) was a British writer, who published under the pen name of Q.

He is primarily remembered for the monumental Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250-1900 (later extended to 1918), and for his literary criticism. show more Product details 152 x 229 x 18mm | 458g Publication date Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch | British writer | Britannica.com Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch Sir Stephen Spender Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, pseudonym “q” (born Nov. 21, 1863, Bodmin , Cornwall , Eng.—died May 12, 1944, Fowey , Cornwall), English poet, novelist, and anthologist noted for his compilation of The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900 (1900; revised 1939) and The Oxford Book of Ballads (1910). Quiller-Couch, 1943 BBC Hulton Picture Library He was educated at Newton Abbot College, Clifton College, and Trinity College , Oxford, where he became lecturer in classics (1886–87).

In 1887 he wrote Dead Man’s Rock, the first of several novels of Cornwall and the sea. From 1887 to 1892 he worked in London for a publishing firm and as assistant editor of The Speaker. A number of short stories that he contributed to it were reprinted in book form as Noughts and Crosses (1891), the first of a dozen similar volumes. In 1892 he settled at Fowey, the small Cornish port that appears in his stories as “Troy Town.” He was knighted in 1910 and in 1912 was appointed King Edward VII professor of English literature at Cambridge and also elected a fellow of Jesus College. Poems (1930) is a collection of his serious verse; Green Bays (1930) contains light verse.

His published works include On the Art of Writing (1916), Shakespeare’s Workmanship (1918), Studies in Literature (3 series: 1918, 1922, 1929), On the Art of Reading (1920), Charles Dickens and Other Victorians (1925), and The Poet as Citizen, and Other Papers (1934). He was noted for his clear and apparently effortless style. Learn More in these related articles:

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