Henry Butler Clarke
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Henry Butler Clarke was a lecturer on Spanish at the University of Oxford
's Taylor Institution
from 1890 to 1894, and an author of books about Spanish literature and history. His best-known work is Modern Spain, 1815-1898, published posthumously in 1906.
, on the French-Spanish border, where his father was Anglican chaplain. He studied at the University of Oxford, and in 1890 was appointed lecturer on Spanish at the Taylor Institution. He resigned as a lecturer for reasons of health in 1894, but remained Fereday Fellow of St John's College, Oxford
, and continued to write and research. In 1898 he was invited to give the annual Taylorian Lecture
, choosing as his subject the picaresque novel
. He died in Torquay in 1904.
After his death, the portion of his library acquired by St John's College was catalogued by Fernando de Arteaga y Pereira, Taylorian Teacher of Spanish, who also revised Clarke's Spanish Grammar for Schools for a second edition in 1914.
University of Oxford
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's Taylor Institution
Taylor Institution
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from 1890 to 1894, and an author of books about Spanish literature and history. His best-known work is Modern Spain, 1815-1898, published posthumously in 1906.
Life
Clarke was partly raised in Saint-Jean-de-LuzSaint-Jean-de-Luz
Saint-Jean-de-Luz is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.Saint-Jean-de-Luz is part of the province Basque of Labourd and the Basque Eurocity Bayonne - San Sebastian .-Geography:...
, on the French-Spanish border, where his father was Anglican chaplain. He studied at the University of Oxford, and in 1890 was appointed lecturer on Spanish at the Taylor Institution. He resigned as a lecturer for reasons of health in 1894, but remained Fereday Fellow of St John's College, Oxford
St John's College, Oxford
__FORCETOC__St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, one of the larger Oxford colleges with approximately 390 undergraduates, 200 postgraduates and over 100 academic staff. It was founded by Sir Thomas White, a merchant, in 1555, whose heart is buried in the chapel of...
, and continued to write and research. In 1898 he was invited to give the annual Taylorian Lecture
Taylorian Lecture
The Taylorian Lecture, sometimes referred to as the "Special Taylorian Lecture" or "Taylorian Special Lecture", is a prestigious annual lecture on Modern European Literature, delivered at the Taylor Institution in the University of Oxford since 1889....
, choosing as his subject the picaresque novel
Picaresque novel
The picaresque novel is a popular sub-genre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts, in realistic and often humorous detail, the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society...
. He died in Torquay in 1904.
After his death, the portion of his library acquired by St John's College was catalogued by Fernando de Arteaga y Pereira, Taylorian Teacher of Spanish, who also revised Clarke's Spanish Grammar for Schools for a second edition in 1914.
Works
- A First Spanish Reader and Writer. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1891. Available at Internet Archive.
- A Spanish grammar for schools based on the principles and requirements of the Grammatical Society. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1892. Reprinted 1909. Second edition (edited by Fernando de Arteaga y Pereira) 1914.
- Spanish Literature: An Elementary Handbook. London: Swan, Sonnenschein and Co., 1893. Reprinted 1921, 1970. Available at Internet Archive.
- Lazarillo de TormesLazarillo de TormesThe Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities is a Spanish novella, published anonymously because of its heretical content...
. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1897. - The Cid Campeador and the Waning of the Crescent in the West. In the series "Heroes of the Nations". New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. Reprinted 1978. Available at Internet Archive.
- "The Catholic Kings", in Cambridge Modern HistoryCambridge Modern HistoryThe Cambridge Modern History is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century age of Discovery, published by the Cambridge University Press in the United Kingdom and also in the United States....
, vol.1, 1902, chapter XI. Available at Internet Archive. - Modern Spain, 1815-1898, 1906. Reprinted 1969. Partial preview on Google Books.
- "The Spanish Gipsy. Edited with critical essay and notes by H. Butler Clarke", in Charles Mills GayleyCharles Mills GayleyCharles Mills Gayley was a professor of English and the Classics at the University of California at Berkeley, from the fall of 1889 through July 1932.-Biography:...
(ed.), Representative English Comedies, vol. 3. London: Macmillan, 1914.
Sources
- Obituary in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Oct. 6, 1904.
- Rev. W.H. Hutton, "Memoir", prefaced to Modern Spain (1906).