Roger Lonsdale

Roger Harrison Lonsdale DPhil, FBA, FRSL (6 August 1934 – 28 February 2022) was a British literary scholar and academic born in Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Hymers College, Hull (1945-1952).^[1][2][3] He was a Fellow and Tutor at Balliol College Oxford from 1963 to 2000, and Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1989^[4] and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1991.^[5][6][7] Lonsdale died at home in Oxford on 28 February 2022, at the age of 87.^[8] He was married to the archaeologist Nicoletta Momigliano.^[9]

Bibliography

• Dr Charles Burney: A literary Biography (Clarendon Press, 1965)
• Editor. The Poems of Gray, Collins and Goldsmith (Longmans, Green and Company, 1969)
• Editor. William Beckford's Vathek (OUP, 1970)
• Editor. History of literature in the English language. 4: the Augustans. (Barrie and Jenkins, 1970–75)
• Editor. Dryden to Johnson. (Barrie and Jenkins, 1971)
• Editor. The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse (OUP, 1984)
• Editor. Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology (OUP, 1989)
• Editor. The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets by Samuel Johnson (OUP, 2006)^[10]