1886–1960, English scholar, b. Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland. Grierson was the first professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen before joining University of Edinburgh in 1915, a position he held for twenty years. Knighted in 1936, he is most remembered for his 1912 edition of Donne’s poems as well as his commentary and critical work on metaphysical poetry.
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Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th c.
Grierson’s compendious collection of seventeen-century metaphysical poetry, verse which “has been inspired by a philosophical conception of the universe,” is organized into three section: love poems, divine poems, and miscellanies.
