Sir Herbert Grierson: Professor of English Literature 1894-1915. [Offprint from the Aberdeen University Review, vol. xxxviii, 3, no. 122, Spring 1960]

Nan SHEPHERD

Published by Aberdeen: at the University Press, 1960

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Single sheet, folded, with additional photographic portrait plate. "Grierson is dead: those to whom this is more than a fact of biography are our older graduates, for it will be forty-five years in summer since he left our Chair of English Literature for that of Edinburgh . . . Yet how fresh our memories of him have remained, when we get together how we all still recall his movements and his ways - washing his hands as he spoke, turning gradually away from his audience till he was declaiming to the windows - and his voice, unlike any other voice one had ever heard, swaying and sonorous chanting Tears, idle tears, or Timor mortis conturbat me." Printed as a pendant is a recollection, "H.J.C.G.", by his daughter Flora Grierson. The writer Nan Shepherd (Anna Shepherd, 1893-1981) was Editor of the Aberdeen University Review, 1957-63. Sir Herbert Grierson (1866-1960) was the original of Professor Gregory, the inspirational lecturer in her first novel, The Quarry Wood (1928). Shepherd has achieved modern classic status with her late-published book on the Cairngorms, The Living Mountain (1977). Seller Inventory # S300184

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Title: Sir Herbert Grierson: Professor of English ...

Publisher: Aberdeen: at the University Press

Publication Date: 1960

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Fine