Pleasing Myself: From Beowulf to Philip Roth

by Frank Kermode

Overview

Sir Frank Kermode is acknowledged as one of the greatest critics of our time, renowned for the wit humanity and good sense of his writing. Pleasing Myself brings together the very best of his shorter pieces, on topics ranging from Donne and Yeats to modern art and money.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781448211470
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	08/20/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Sir John Frank Kermode was a British literary critic best known for his work The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (1967) and for his extensive book-reviewing and editing.

Kermode was born on the Isle of Man in November 1919, and was educated at Douglas High School and Liverpool University. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II for six years in total, much of it spent in Iceland.

In 1947, Kermode began his academic career as a lecturer at Durham University; he later taught at Reading University, followed by a stint at the University of Bristol. In 1967 he was named Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London, a position he held until 1974, when he took the position of King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University – he resigned from this post in 1982. He then moved to Columbia University in the New York City, where he was Julian Clarence Levi Professor Emeritus in the Humanities. From 1975-76 he held the Norton Lectureship at Harvard University. He was knighted in 1991.

Kermode died in Cambridge on 17 August 2010.
Sir John Frank Kermode was born in November 1919. He was a British literary critic best known for his work The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, published in 1967 and for his extensive book-reviewing and editing.

Kermode was born on the Isle of Man, and was educated at Douglas High School and Liverpool University. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II, for six years in total, much of it in Iceland.

He began his academic career as a lecturer at Durham University in 1947. He later taught at Reading University, then the University of Bristol. He was named Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London from 1967 to 1974.

In 1974, Kermode took the position of King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University, resigning in 1982. He then moved to Columbia University, where he was Julian Clarence Levi Professor Emeritus in the Humanities. In 1975-76 he held the Norton Lectureship at Harvard University. He was knighted in 1991.

Kermode died in Cambridge on 17 August 2010.