Name Thomas Henn | Died 1974 | |
Books The Apple and the Spectroscope: Being Lectures on Poetry Designed (in the Main) for Science Students | ||
Thomas Rice Henn (1901–1974) was an Irish literary critic.
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Life
Henn was born in Albert House, County Sligo, Ireland and educated in Fermoy and later at Aldenham School before gaining an Exhibition at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he was elected Fellow in 1926. He was Senior Tutor, 1945–47, and President, 1951–61.
He served in the British army in the Second World War, rising to the rank of Brigadier. He served from 1963 to 1968 as Chairman of the Central Organisation of Military Education Committees of the Universities and University Colleges, what is now the Council of Military Education Committees of the Universities of the United Kingdom (COMEC). The Lonely Tower (1950) was a study of W. B. Yeats; he edited J. M. Synge in 1963, and embarked on the Coole edition of Lady Gregory with Colin Smythe towards the end of his life.
He supervised the Ph. D thesis of Harivansh Rai Bachchan on W. B. Yeats.
Works
Henn's works were: