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Karl Miller

カール・ミラー

Kāru Mirā

Aliases: Karl Fergus Connor Miller

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1931-08-02 （Loanhead, Midlothian, Scotland）
Died
2014-09-24 age 83
Nationality
British, Scottish
Languages
English
Residence History
Scotland → London

Career

Occupations
Literary editor, Critic, Writer
Active Years
1952-2014
Affiliations
The Spectator, New Statesman, The Listener, London Review of Books, University College London
Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)

Education

Royal High School, Edinburgh
English
Country: United Kingdom
Downing College, Cambridge
English
Country: United Kingdom
Cambridge Apostle

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1975
Work: Cockburn's Millennium
Organization: University of Edinburgh
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Cockburn's Millennium

1975 Biography

A biography of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Scottish history

Electric Shepherd: a likeness of James Hogg

2003 Biography

A biography of James Hogg.

Scottish literature

Doubles: Studies in Literary History

1985 Criticism

Studies in literary history.

Literary history

Bibliography

  • Poetry from Cambridge 1952–4 (editor)
  • Writing in England Today: the last fifteen years (editor)
  • Memoirs of a Modern Scotland (editor)
  • Cockburn's Millennium
  • Doubles: Studies in Literary History
  • Authors
  • Rebecca's Vest: a memoir
  • Boswell and Hyde
  • Dark Horses: an experience of literary journalism
  • Seamus Heaney in conversation with Karl Miller
  • Electric Shepherd: a likeness of James Hogg
  • Tretower to Clyro: essays

Style & Themes

Literary Style
CriticalMemoiristic
Recurring Motifs
Scottish literatureDoubles

Legacy

Renowned British literary editor, critic, and founder of the London Review of Books.

Archives

  • Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University

Trivia

  • He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles.