Thomas Rice Henn

Who was Thomas Rice Henn?

Thomas Rice Henn was a literary critic. He was born in Albert House, County Sligo, Ireland and educated in Fermoy and at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, where 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. The Lonely Tower 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 l

He supervised the Ph. D thesis of Harivansh Rai Bachchan on W. B. Yeats.

His works were:

Longinus And English Criticism

Field Sports In Shakespeare

The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats

Practical Fly-Tying

The Apple and the Spectroscope: Being lectures on poetry designed for science students

The Harvest Of Tragedy [n|1956]

Selected Poems

Science In Writing

Passages For Divine Reading

The Plays And Poems Of J.M. Synge editor

Shooting a Bat and other poems

W.B. Yeats and the Poetry of War Warton Lecture

Kipling

The Bible as Literature

The Living Image: Shakespeare Essays