J. A. W. Bennett

J. A. W. Bennett

Jack Arthur Walter Bennett (1911–1981) was a New Zealand-born literary scholar. He is best known as a scholar of Middle English literature. He was editor of the journal "Medium Aevum" from 1956 to 1980, having earlier assisted his predecessor, C. T. Onions, and was a colleague of C. S. Lewis at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1964 he succeeded Lewis as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, Cambridge University. His most substantial work was the volume on "Middle English Literature" for the 'Oxford History of English Literature', which was completed after his death by Douglas Gray and published in 1986.


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