Thomas Rice Henn

Thomas Rice Henn (1901-1974) was a literary critic. He became Professor of English at the University of Cambridge.

He supervised the Ph. D thesis of Harivansh Rai Bachchan on W. B. Yeats. Harivansh Rai, an ex-Professor of English at the Allahabad University in India is the father of Indian film superstar, Amitabh Bachchan.

Works

• Longinus And English Criticism (1934)
• Field Sports In Shakespeare (1934)
• The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats (1950)
• Practical Fly-Tying (1950)
• The Apple and the Spectroscope: Being lectures on poetry designed (in the main) for science students (1951/1963)
• The Harvest Of Tragedy [n|1956]
• Selected Poems (1958)
• Science In Writing (1960)
• Passages For Divine Reading (1963)
• The Plays And Poems Of J.M. Synge (1963) editor
• Shooting a Bat and other poems (1964)
• W.B. Yeats and the Poetry of War (1965) Warton Lecture
• Kipling (1967)
• The Bible as Literature (1970)
• The Living Image: Shakespeare Essays (1972)
• Last Essays: Mainly on Anglo-Irish Literature (1976)
• The Untilled Field (1976)
• Five Arches: A Sketch for an Autobiography and Poems (1980)