05-03-2011, 20:58
En fait, c'est Norman Davis, sans e. ;-)
A son propos :
[citation=Hammond & Scull, Reader's Guide (p. 207-208)]Davis, Norman (1913-1989). After taking his degree at the University of Otago in New Zealand, Norman Davis read English at Merton College, *Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. There a second B.A. (1936) was followed by a Diploma in Comparative Philology. Tolkien proved a sympathetic and inspiring teacher, and became a lifelong friend. In later years Davis and his wife took lunch every week with Ronald and *Edith Tolkien at a country hotel.
For about a decade from 1937, except during the Second World War, Davis lectured in English at several universities in England and on the continent. Among the students he tutored at Oriel and Bracenose Colleges, Oxford, from 1947 was *Rayner Unwin. In 1948-9 he was Lecturer in Medieval English at Oxford, and from 1949 to 1959 held the chair of English Language at the University of Glasgow. He returned to Oxford in 1959 as Tolkien's successor to the Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature, and remained in that post until his own retirement in 1980.
Among his more notable publications are a thorough revision of Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer for its ninth edition (1953); editions of the Paston letters and papers (1958, etc.); the glossary for Early Middle English Verse and Prose, ed. *J.A.W Bennett and *G.V. Smithers (1966; 2nd edn. 1968); a revision of *Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. Tolkien and *E.V. Gordon (1967); and Non-Cycle Plays and Fragments (1970). With *C.L. Wrenn he co-edited the Festschrift *English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (1962), to which he himself contributed the essay 'Man and Monsters at Sutton Hoo'. He also served for many years as co-editor of the Review of English Studies and as Honorary Director of the Early English Text Society. In the latter capacity he was concerned with the extraction from Tolkien of his edition of the Ancrene Wisse (* Ancrene Riwle), whose publication had been long delayed.[/citation]
A son propos :
[citation=Hammond & Scull, Reader's Guide (p. 207-208)]Davis, Norman (1913-1989). After taking his degree at the University of Otago in New Zealand, Norman Davis read English at Merton College, *Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. There a second B.A. (1936) was followed by a Diploma in Comparative Philology. Tolkien proved a sympathetic and inspiring teacher, and became a lifelong friend. In later years Davis and his wife took lunch every week with Ronald and *Edith Tolkien at a country hotel.
For about a decade from 1937, except during the Second World War, Davis lectured in English at several universities in England and on the continent. Among the students he tutored at Oriel and Bracenose Colleges, Oxford, from 1947 was *Rayner Unwin. In 1948-9 he was Lecturer in Medieval English at Oxford, and from 1949 to 1959 held the chair of English Language at the University of Glasgow. He returned to Oxford in 1959 as Tolkien's successor to the Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature, and remained in that post until his own retirement in 1980.
Among his more notable publications are a thorough revision of Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer for its ninth edition (1953); editions of the Paston letters and papers (1958, etc.); the glossary for Early Middle English Verse and Prose, ed. *J.A.W Bennett and *G.V. Smithers (1966; 2nd edn. 1968); a revision of *Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. Tolkien and *E.V. Gordon (1967); and Non-Cycle Plays and Fragments (1970). With *C.L. Wrenn he co-edited the Festschrift *English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (1962), to which he himself contributed the essay 'Man and Monsters at Sutton Hoo'. He also served for many years as co-editor of the Review of English Studies and as Honorary Director of the Early English Text Society. In the latter capacity he was concerned with the extraction from Tolkien of his edition of the Ancrene Wisse (* Ancrene Riwle), whose publication had been long delayed.[/citation]