Author:William John Courthope

William John Courthope
(1842–1917)

Works

• Addison (1884) (external scan)
• The liberal movement in English literature (1885)
• History of English Poetry (1895- ), in 6 vols.
• Life in poetry: Law in taste; two series of lectures delivered in Oxford, 1895-1900 (1901) (external scan)

Poetry

• The Three Hundredth Anniversary of Shakespeare's Birth: A Prize Poem Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 8, 1864 (1864)
• Ludibria Lunæ; or, The Wars of the Women and the Gods, an Allegorical Burlesque (1869)
• The Paradise of Birds; an Old Extravaganza in a Modern Dress (1870) (transcription project)
• The Longest Reign: An Ode on the Completion of the Sixtieth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria (1897)
• The Country Town and Other Poems (1920)

As editor

• The Works of Alexander Pope (1871-1889), in 10 vols.

Vols. 1-2 and 6-8 (1871-1872) edited by Whitwell Elwin; vols. 3-5 and 9-10 (1881-1889) edited by William John Courthope.

Works about Courthope

• "Courthope, William John," in Men-at-the-Bar (2nd ed.), by Foster, J., London: Hazel, Watson and Viney, Limited (1885)
• "Courthope, William John," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Courthope, William John, C.B., LL.D.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Courthope, William John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Courthope, William John," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Courthope, William John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement, London: Oxford University Press (1927)