The New Student's Reference Work/Courthope, William John

Courthope (kōrt′ō̇p), William John, an English critic and man-of-letters, was born in Sussex, England, July 17, 1842, and educated at Harrow and Oxford. At the latter he won the chancellor's gold medal for verse, and also was Newdigate prizeman. He was one of the founders of the English National Review and a staff member of the Quarterly Review; subsequently he was appointed civil-service examiner in the government education department, and was made a Companion of the Bath. In 1893 he was elected professor of poetry in the University of Oxford. He has edited an elaborate edition of Pope's Works, with Life; a Life of Addison (in the English Men of Letters Series); a History of English Poetry; and a burlesque in allegory, entitled The Paradise of Birds.