Ernest de Sélincourt

Ernest de Sélincourt (1870–1943) was a British literary scholar and critic. He is best known as an editor of William Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth. He was Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1928 to 1933 and a Fellow of University College, Oxford.

His Papers are held at the University of Birmingham Special Collections.

A little known fact about Ernest De Selincourt is that he went to France in March 1917 as a Professor with the YMCA and this service is duly recorded in the First World War medal rolls.

Works

* "The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser" (1910) editor, three volumes
* "English poets and the national ideal" – four lectures (1915)
* "The Poems of John Keats" (1920) editor
* "A Guide through the District of the Lakes by William Wordsworth" (1926) editor
* "The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind by William Wordsworth" (1928) editor
* "Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth" (1933) editor
* "Dorothy Wordsworth" (1933)
* "Oxford Lectures on Poetry" (1934)
* "The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth" – 6 Volumes (1935–39) editor, six volumes
*"Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland" (1941), editor (by Dorothy Wordsworth)