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W.P. Ker


Born
in Glasgow, Scotland, The United Kingdom
August 30, 1855

Died
July 17, 1923

Genre
Literature


William Paton Ker (usually referred to as W. P. Ker) was a Scottish literary scholar and essayist.

He was appointed to a fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford in 1879, became Professor of English Literature and History at the University College of South Wales, Cardiff in 1883; and moved to University College London as Quain Professor in 1889. He was the Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1920 to his death.

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Epic and Romance: Essays on...
3.47 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1897 — 78 editions
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The Dark Ages
4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1904 — 57 editions
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Medieval English Literature...
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1912 — 40 editions
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The Art of Poetry
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1920 — 8 editions
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Collected Essays of WP Ker
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The Eighteenth Century
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 19 editions
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Essays on Medieval Literature
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Collected Essays of W P Ker...
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Essays Of John Dryden (1900)
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Sir Walter Scott A Lecture ...
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“Imagination and the pure delight in stories drive out fear.”
― W.P. Ker
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“The labor and meditation of all the world has not discovered, for the purpose of narrative, any essential modification of the procedure of Homer.”
― W. P. Ker
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“The last word of the Northmen before their entry in the larger world of Southern culture, their last independent guess at the secret of the Universe, is given in the Twilight of the Gods. As far as it goes, and as a working theory, it is absolutely impregnable. It is the assertion of the individual freedom against all the terrors and temptations of the world. It is absolute resistance, perfect because without hope.”
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