Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson

Critic and scholar, born in Lerwick, Shetland, NE Scotland, UK. He studied at King's College, Aberdeen, and at Oxford, and became professor at Aberdeen (1894–1915) and Edinburgh (1915–35), where he was also elected rector (1936–9). His books include Metaphysical Poets (1921), Milton and Wordsworth (1937), and Essays and Addresses (1940).

Professor Saintsbury The English Parnassus (1909) anthology of longer poems, editor with W. MacNeile Dixon Poems of Tennyson (1910) The Poems of John Donne 2 vols. (Oxford UP, 1912) editor Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler (1921) Don Quixote: Some War-time Reflections on Its Character and Influence (1921) pamphlet William Blake's Designs for Gray's Poems (1922) Poems of Lord Byron (1923) The Background Of English Literature and Other Collected Essays & Addresses (1925) Lyrical Poetry from Blake to Hardy (1928, Hogarth Press) Cross-Currents in 17th Century English Literature (1929) The Flute, with Other Translations and a Poem (Samson Press, 1931) Sir Walter Scott. Broadcast Lectures to the Young (1932) Sir Walter Scott To-Day: Some Retrospective Essays and Studies (1932) editor The Letters of Sir Walter Scott (from 1932) editor Carlyle and Hitler (1933) Adamson Lecture in the University of Manchester 1930 Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse (1934) editor with G. Bullough (1934) Milton and Wordsworth (1937) The English Bible (1943) A Critical History of English Poetry (1944) with J.