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...spite of all this, in 1912 Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (pronounced Cootch, "not like a sofa") was appointed King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University. "I'm in a hideous funk about it," he wrote to a friend. But the funk didn't last long, and in time Q became one of the most popular lecturers the university had. When he died four years ago at 81, he was still lecturing. Last week, in a short, intimate biography (Arthur Quiller-Couch; Macmillan, $3.50), his friend Fred Brittain, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, tried to tell...
...late Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (rhymes with hooch) was best known to Americans not as the author of nearly 60 volumes of novels, essays and poetry, but as editor of The Oxford Book of English Verse, one of the world's best-selling anthologies (500,000 copies since 1900). To Victorian contemporaries Sir Arthur was the pseudonymous "Q," whose tales of adventure (The Splendid Spur, I Saw Three Ships) made him one of Britain's most popular storytellers at the turn of the century. To Cambridge students, from 1912 until his death last year, he was the sharp...
Died. Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 80, dean of English belle-lettrists, two months after he was hit by a jeep; in Fowey, Cornwall. Known to all Eng land as "Q," red-haired Quiller-Couch (Couch, pronounced Cooch, means red in Celtic) wrote the first of his 30 romantic novels (Dead Man's Rock) in 1887, edited the Oxford Book of English Verse. An Oxford graduate, he was longtime (since 1912) King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. He always wore traditional morning dress to his lectures, relaxed in old clothes and a battered brown derby...
...Viking Book of Poetry (Viking; $3.50), compiled by Richard Aldington, is, by & large, the best compendious poetry anthology in the English language. Less elegant than Palgrave's Golden Treasury, less aristocratic than Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse, it is bigger around the waist than they are, represents in its format and arrangement a superb job of publishing. Anthologist Aldington, in making his selections from the entire body of English and American poetry, tries less to hit a poetical bull's-eye than a poetical barn door. His misses are few. All the great...
George Bernard Shaw, rung up by London papers, admitted himself baffled, chirped: "Hold on a moment while I ask a friend who ought to know." The friend did not. Neither did H. G. Wells: "I have never heard the quotation before." Said learned Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge since 1912: "I had no idea of its origin...