Roger Sharrock
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Roger Ian Sharrock (23 August 1919 – 27 December 1990) was a British literary scholar noted for his works on John Bunyan and the Romantic poets.[1][2] The journal Bunyan Studies called him "the best known and most distinguished Bunyan scholar of the twentieth century".[2]
Sharrock was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield and St John's College, Oxford. During the Second World War he served in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, from 1939 to 1941. In 1946 he was appointed lecturer in English at University College, Southampton and as reader in 1962. In 1963 he became professor of English at Durham University and in 1968 he was appointed professor of English language and literature at King's College London, a post he held until his retirement in 1981.[1]
Sharrock edited John Bunyan's works for the Oxford University Press and organised the publication of the Miscellaneous Works of Bunyan, which appeared in 12 volumes and for the first time provided reliable texts of 60 of Bunyan's works.[1] He also wrote about the Romantic poets, focusing on William Wordsworth's early poetry.[1] He was chairman of the English Association from 1972 to 1979.[1]