R. A. Waldron Explained
| Ronald Alan Waldron |
| Birth Date: | 1927 1, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Teignmouth, Devon, England |
| Occupation: | Author |
| Nationality: | British |
| Genre: | Medieval literature |
| Awards: | Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture (1988)[1] |
Ronald Alan Waldron (born 9 January 1927) is an English medievalist, considered a pre-eminent expert in the field of early English literature. He wrote many books and was a lecturer at the University of Aarhus in Denmark and King's College London. He made an especial focus on the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.[2]
Early life
Waldron was born and raised in Teignmouth in south Devon, attending Teignmouth Grammar School. After leaving school he worked as a clerk at Teignmouth Electric Company before being called up for national service late in World War II. After the war under the governmental Further Education and Training Scheme programme he attended the University College of the South West of England and graduated in 1951, then did postgraduate work at Royal Holloway College of the University of London, graduating in 1953. He was married to Mary (née Mary Margaret Dodd) in 1955 and they had three children. His first book, published by the Oxford University Press in 1967, was Sense and Sense Development, a non-technical work on semantics.
Books about Ronald Alan Waldron
- New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: a Festschrift for R. A. Waldron[2]
Works written or edited by Ronald Alan Waldron
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight[3]
- The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight[4]
- Medieval English Studies Presented to George Kane[5]
- The Complete Works of the Pearl Poet[6]
- Doublets in the Translation Techniques of John Trevisa
Notes and References
- Web site: Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lectures. The British Academy. text
- Book: Powell. Susan. Smith. Jeremy J.. New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: A Festschrift for R.A. Waldron. D.S. Brewer. 2000. Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, N.Y.. ix. 978-0-85991-590-8 . 43757539. Festschrift is a loan word from German: Festschriften are usually produced for anniversaries or retirements, and often include a "tabula gratulatoria" and a bibliography of all the academic work of the recipient.
- Book: Waldron . Ronald Alan . Sir Gawain and the Green Knight . . 1970 . Evanston, Illinois . 139 . 978-0-8101-0328-3 . 135649.
- Book: Andrew . Malcolm . Malcolm Andrew . Waldron . Ronald Alan . The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight . . 1978 . Berkeley . 373 . 978-0-85989-726-6 . 5241542 . registration .
- Book: Kennedy . Edward Donald . Edward Donald Kennedy . Waldron . Ronald Alan . Wittig . Joseph S. . Joseph S. Wittig . Medieval English Studies Presented to George Kane . D. S. Brewer . 1988 . Wolfeboro, N.H. . 327 . 978-0-85991-262-4 . 16833713 .
- Book: Finch . Casey . Casey Finch . Waldron . Ronald Alan . Andrew . Malcolm . Peterson . Clifford J. . Clifford J. Peterson . The Complete Works of the Pearl Poet . . 1993 . Berkeley . 488 . 978-0-520-07871-0 . 25409834.
