ABSTRACT
1935
Claude Colleer Abbott (1889–1971) was Lecturer in English at Aberdeen University 1921–32, and Professor of English at Durham from 1932. He was a poet as well as a critic, and had been publishing since 1918.
Abbott first showed his interest in Hopkins in the review of Lahey’s Life in The Nation and Athenaeum, 28 June 1930, when he expressed a hope for the publication of the letters and the Journals. He was an admirer of Bridges’s editorship, and the following extracts seem based on canons of criticism of which the latter would have approved.
Abbott also edited the Correspondence of Hopkins and Dixon and Further Letters.
