Helen Gardner

Helen Gardner, M.A., D.Litt. Oxford, Fellow of the British Academy, was Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall and St Hilda's College. She received enormous acclaim for her work, including honorary doctorates from London, Birmingham, Harvard, Yale and Cambridge among other universities. She was made a CBE in 1962, and a DBE in 1967.

Dame Helen Gardener's publications include The Art of T.S. Eliot (1949), The Divine Poems of John Donne (1952, second edition 1978), The Sonnets of William Alabaster (edited, with G.M. Story, 1960), The Business of Criticism (1960), The Elegies and Songs and Sonnets of John Donne (1965), A Reading of Paradise Lost (1965), John Donne: Selected Prose (edited, with T. Healey, 1967) Religion and Literature (1971), The Faber Book of Religious Verse (edited, 1972), The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1950 (edited, 1972), The Composition of Four Quartets (1978) and In Defence of the Imagination (1982). She died in 1986.

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