A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Collins, John Churton

by John William Cousin

Collins, John Churton (1848-1908).—Writer on literature and critic, b. in Gloucestershire, and ed. at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Oxf., became in 1894 Prof. of English Literature at Birmingham. He wrote books on Sir J. Reynolds (1874), Voltaire in England (1886), Illustrations of Tennyson (1891), and also on Swift and Shakespeare, various collections of essays, Essays and Studies (1895), and Studies in Poetry and Criticism (1905), etc. and he issued ed. of the works of C. Tourneur, Greene, Dryden, Herbert of Cherbury, etc.