Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur (Thomas)

Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur (Thomas)
born Nov. 21, 1863, Bodmin, Cornwall, Eng.
died May 12, 1944, Fowey, Cornwall

English poet, novelist, and anthologist.

Educated at Oxford, he worked as a journalist and editor in London before settling in his native Cornwall. He taught at Cambridge from 1912. He is noted for compiling The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900 (1900; revised 1939) and The Oxford Book of Ballads (1910). His works, written in a clear and apparently effortless style, include many novels and short stories, verse, and criticism, including On the Art of Writing (1916) and On the Art of Reading (1920).

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