Boris Ford
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Boris Ford read English at Cambridge before the war. He then spent six years in the Army Education Corps, being finally in command of a residential School of Artistic Studies. On leaving the Army, he joined the staff of the newly formed Bureau of Current Affairs and graduated to be its Chief Editor and in the end its Director. When the Bureau closed down at thé end of 1951, he joined the Secretariat of the United Nations in New York and Geneva. On returning to England in the autumn of 1953, he was appointed Secretary of a national inquiry into the problem of providing a humane liberal education for people undergoing technical and professional training. Boris Ford then became Editor of the Journal of Education, until it ceased publication in 1958, and also the first Head of School Broadcasting with independent television. From 1958 he was Education Secretary at the Cambridge University Press, and from i960 to 1963 Professor of Education and Director of the Institute of Education at Sheffield University. In 1963 he was appointed Professor of Education and Dean of the School of Educational Studies at the University of Sussex. He was Editor of Universities Quarterly.
Books
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature
This fifth volume of The Pelican Guide to English Literature covers the period from William Blake to Lord Byron. It begins with an account of the social and intellectual context of English literature during the Romantic period, followed by a survey of the literature itself. The rest of the book is made up of a series of essays dealing in detail with Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Crabbe, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Burns, Jane Austen, Scott, and the Essayists. Finally the volume contains an appendix of biographies and bibliographies (newly revised for this reprint).
Guide to English literature
What this work sets out to offer is a guide to the history and traditions of English Literature, a contour-map of the literary scene. It attempts, that is, to draw up an ordered account of literature that is concerned, first and foremost, with value for the present, and this is a direct encouragement to people to read for themselves. Each volume sets out to present the reader with four kinds of related material: (i) An account of the social context of literature in each period. (ii) A literary survey of the period. (iii) Detailed studies of some of the chief writers and works in the period. (iv) An appendix of essential facts for reference purposes. The volumes in the Guide are 1. THE AGE OF CHAUCER 2. THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE 3. FROM DONNE TO MARVELL 4. FROM DRYDEN TO JOHNSON 5. FROM BLAKE TO BYRON 6. FROM DICKENS TO HARDY 7. THE MODERN AGE