Warwick Gould Explained

Warwick Leslie Gould, (born 7 April 1947) is a literary scholar born in Sydney. He specializes in the Irish Literary Revival, particularly in the writings of W. B. Yeats, and in Textual Transmission studies and the History of the Book. Having studied at the University of Queensland, he joined Royal Holloway and Bedford New College in 1973 as a Lecturer in English Language and Literature. He became Professor of English Literature of the University of London (1994–2013) and was the Founding Director of the Institute of English Studies in the university's School of Advanced Study (1999–2013). He continues as Professor Emeritus since his retirement in 2013 and is a Senior Research Fellow of the institute.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Honours

In 1997, Gould was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).^[4] He was awarded the 2012 President's Medal by the British Academy: it is awarded "to recognise outstanding service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences".^[5] He is an Hon. Life Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and was elected to Fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries in 2022, and as an Honorary Foreign Corresponding Member of the Grolier Club of New York in the same year.

Selected works

• Book: Gould . Warwick . Reeves . Marjorie . Marjorie Reeves . Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth Century . 1987 . Clarendon Press . Oxford . 978-0198266723 . 1st.
• Book: Gould . Warwick . Kelly . John . Toomey . Deirdre . The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Vol. 2: 1896-1900 . 1997 . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 978-0198126829 . registration .
• Book: Gould . Warwick . Reeves . Marjorie . Marjorie Reeves FBA . Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries . 2001 . Clarendon Press . Oxford . 978-0199242306 . 2nd.
• Book: Gould . Warwick . Toomey . Deirdre . Mythologies by W. B. Yeats . 2005 . Palgrave Macmillan . London . 978-1403945051 . registration .
• Book: Gould . Warwick . The Living Stream: Essays in Memory of A. Norman Jeffares . Yeats Annual . 2013 . Open Book Publishers . 9781909254350 . en.
• Book: Gould . Warwick . Yeats's Legacies . 2019 . Open Book Publishers . 10.11647/obp.0135 . 978-1-78374-454-1 . en . free .

Notes and References

1. Book: Gould, Prof. Warwick Leslie . . Oxford University Press . 18 June 2019 . 1 December 2018. 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U17697 . 978-0-19-954088-4 .
2. Web site: Professor Warwick Gould . School of Advanced Study . 18 June 2019.
3. Web site: Professor Warwick Gould . Royal Holloway . University of London . 18 June 2019.
4. Web site: Warwick Gould . Royal Society of Literature . 18 June 2019.
5. Web site: The British Academy President's Medal . The British Academy . 18 June 2019 . en.