Hugh l'Anson Fausset was an English writer, a literary critic and biographer, and a poet and religious writer.

He was educated at Sedbergh School

Sedbergh School

Sedbergh School is a boarding school in Sedbergh, Cumbria, for boys and girls aged 13 to 18. Nestled in the Howgill Fells, it is known for sporting sides, such as its Rugby Union 1st XV.-Background:...

 and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is notable as the only college founded by Cambridge townspeople: it was established in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary...

, and then at as a choral scholar

Choral scholar

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 at King's College, Cambridge

King's College, Cambridge

King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college's full name is "The King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge", but it is usually referred to simply as "King's" within the University....

. He worked at the Foreign Office, during the summer of 1918, later he became a reviewer and writer.

Fausset wrote regularly for The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement

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 and The Guardian

The Guardian

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, as well as for other periodicals.

Works

• Youth and Sensibility (1917) (poems)
• The Healing of Heaven (1920) (lyrical drama)
• The Spirit of Love (1921) (sonnet sequence)
• Keats: A Study in Development (1922)
• Tennyson: A Modern Portrait (1923)
• Studies in idealism (1923)
• Before the Dawn (1924) (poems)
• John Donne: A study in discord (1924)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1926)
• Tolstoy: The Inner Drama (1927)
• William Cowper (1928)
• The Proving of Psyche (1929)
• The Modern Dilemma (1930)
• The Lost Leader, A Study of Wordsworth (1933)
• A Modern Prelude (1933) (autobiography)
• Walt Whitman: Poet of Democracy (1942)
• Between the Tides (1943) (a novel)
• The Last Days (1945) (a novel)
• Poets and Pundits (1947) (essays)
• Towards Fidelity (1952)
• The Flame and the Light: Meanings in Vedanta and Buddhism (1958)
• The Fruits of Silence (1963)
• The Lost Dimension (1966)