Ian Robinson (author)
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Retford, Nottinghamshire, England
Weobley, Herefordshire, England
Author, Literary Critic, Publisher
Ian Robinson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 April 1937 Retford, Nottinghamshire, England |
| Died | 30 October 2020 (aged 83) Weobley, Herefordshire, England |
| Occupation | Lecturer at University of Wales, Swansea Author, Literary Critic, Publisher |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | Late twentieth century |
Ian Robinson (17 April 1937 – 30 October 2020) was a British literary critic and English lecturer.
Robinson was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Retford, Nottinghamshire, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he was a pupil of F. R. Leavis and earned firsts in both parts of the English Tripos.[1][2] Upon graduation in 1958, he supervised undergraduates at Downing alongside Leavis and Morris Shapira while undertaking graduate research on the metrics of Chaucer and medieval poetry.[3] Awarded a research fellowship at the newly-established Churchill College in 1961, he soon left Cambridge to take up a post as lecturer (and, later, senior lecturer) in the English Department at University College, Swansea, where he remained until 1997.[4][5]
