John Bayley
1925
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2015
country of citizenship: United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Eton College, New College
occupation: literary critic, biographer, literary scholar
award received: Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
position held: fellow, Booker Prize judge
John Oliver Bayley, CBE, FBA, FRSL (27 March 1925 – 12 January 2015) was a British academic, literary critic and writer. He was the Warton Professor of English at the University of Oxford from 1974 to 1992. His first marriage was to the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch.Bayley was “acclaimed for his dissections of Goethe and Pushkin as well as of Jane Austen”. The “master of all he surveys”, he “is the reviewer’s reviewer”, excelling where “deep knowledge and logical examination come together”; his criticism “consists of attractively original examinations of subjects”, “especially those devoted to poetry and to Russian and central European literature”. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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