Хиткот Уильям Гаррод: британдық классик және әдебиет зерттеушісі

British classical scholar

Heathcote William Garrod ( 21 January 1878 – 25 December 1960) was a British classical scholar and literary scholar.

Garrod was born in Wells, Somerset, the fifth of six children of solicitor Charles William Garrod and his wife, Louisa (née Ashby).

In June 1902 he was appointed to an assistant tutorship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Although educated primarily in classics, Garrod became more interested in English literature. His 1923 work, Wordsworth: Lectures and Essays was well received and led to his position as Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1923 to 1928. In 1925, he resigned his tutorship in classics at Oxford for a research fellowship in English, which had been vacant after the death of W. P. Ker. From 1929 to 1930, Garrod was the Charles Eliot Norton professor at Harvard University. Though the remark is frequently attributed to others more famous, more reliable sources give him as the person who, when accosted by a woman during the First World War asking why he was not with the soldiers fighting to defend civilization, replied: "Madam, I am the civilization they are fighting to defend."

In addition to the CBE, Garrod received honorary doctorates from the University of Durham (DLitt, 1930) and the University of Edinburgh (LLD, 1953). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1931. Garrod, who never married, died at the Acland Nursing Home in Oxford on Christmas Day 1960.

J. A. Smith, The Nature of Art : An Open Letter to the Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, Oxford : Oxford University Press (1924)
John Jones, "Heathcote William Garrod. 1878–1960," Proceedings of the British Academy 48 (1962) 357–370
J. Carey, The Unexpected Professor : An Oxford Life in Books, London : Faber & Faber (2014) 138 42