Keith
Sagar Literary Critic and Poet |
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A Note from Keith's Family - October 2013 Donations in his memory may be made to Friends of the Earth via www.justgiving.com/keithsagar . Melissa, Ursula and Arren Sagar Autobiography I was born in Bradford (only ten miles from the Bronte Country and the Hughes Country) in 1934, and educated at Bradford Grammar School and King's, Cambridge, where I read English. My first job was as Administrative Assistant in the Extra-Mural Department at Leeds University, where I began my Ph.D. on Lawrence. In 1959 I became WEA Tutor-Organizer for North-East Derbyshire, and lived in Chesterfield for four years (close to the Lawrence Country). I was awarded my Ph.D. in 1962, and the following year I moved to the Ribble Valley as Resident Tutor for Northeast Lancashire for the Extra-Mural Department at Manchester University. In 1966 I published the first of over twenty books, most of them on D.H.Lawrence or Ted Hughes. In the 1970s I made lecture tours in the United States almost every year. In 1981 I married Melissa Partridge, and we bought a house halfway up Pendle overlooking the Ribble Valley. In the 1980s I was sent by the British Council on lecture tours in Yugoslavia, India and China. Our children, Ursula and Arren, were born in 1985 and 1987. In 1995 Manchester University, which had awarded me a Readership in English Literature in 1984, threw me out seven years early for teaching the Western canon. Since then I have continued to write, to teach for the WEA, and to direct an annual theatre course in London. For several years I bred and photographed endangered Australian finches in a large octagonal aviary which Ted Hughes called my 'stately pleasure dome'; but since our move to Clitheroe in 2004 I have preferred the plentiful wild birds in our large wooded garden. In 2005 I received the Harry T. Moore Award for Lifetime Achievement in Lawrence Studies. In 2006 I was appointed to a Special Professorship in the School of English Studies at Nottingham University, where I shall work mainly in conjunction with the D.H.Lawrence Research Centre. Principal books
Between 1971 and 1982 I edited the following Lawrence titles for Penguin:
I have also contributed chapters to many books, and published dozens
of articles, many of them in the D.H.Lawrence Review.
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