The Posthumous Essays of John Churton Collins 


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John Churton Collins was a literary critic who lived from 1848- 
1908. In 1904 John Collins became professor of English literature 
at Birmingham University (United Kingdom). He writes about the 

lives of English and German authors, beginning with William 
Shakespeare (1564-1616) and ending with Alfred, Lord Tennyson 
(1809-1892). He wrote the book in response to On Heroes, Hero- 

Worhsip, and the Heroic in History, by ‘Thomas Carlyle (1840). 
His son, L.C. Collins, collected these essays from various sources 

after his father's death. 





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The Posthumous Essays of John Churton Collins