Howard Erskine-Hill

The late Howard Erskine-Hill (1936-2014) was Emeritus Professor of Literary History, University of Cambridge, Fellow of Pembroke College and of the British Academy. A graduate of the University of Nottingham, his doctoral thesis 'Tradition and Affinity in the Poetry of Pope' marked the beginning of a lifetime's concern with this poet. After teaching at the University of Wales, Swansea, from 1960 to 1965, he moved to the English Faculty of the University of Cambridge, where he remained until his...See more

The late Howard Erskine-Hill (1936-2014) was Emeritus Professor of Literary History, University of Cambridge, Fellow of Pembroke College and of the British Academy. A graduate of the University of Nottingham, his doctoral thesis 'Tradition and Affinity in the Poetry of Pope' marked the beginning of a lifetime's concern with this poet. After teaching at the University of Wales, Swansea, from 1960 to 1965, he moved to the English Faculty of the University of Cambridge, where he remained until his retirement in 2003. With wide teaching and research interests in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries besides Pope, Professor Erskine-Hill was consistently committed to the study of relations between literature, history, and politics. See less