Background
Andrew Rutherford was born on July 23, 1929, in Helmsdale, Sutherland, United Kingdom.
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George Watson's College where Andrew Rutherford studied.
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The University of Edinburgh where Andrew Rutherford studied.
Order of the British Empire which Andrew Rutherford received in 1993.
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Byron: A Critical Study is an account of Byron's poetic achievement which concentrates on his early satires rather than his more famous romantic works.
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1961
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Kipling's Mind and Art assembles diverse critical essays offering a reassessment of the nineteenth-century British author's work.
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1964
(This volume collects over three hundred of Kipling's earl...)
This volume collects over three hundred of Kipling's early poems, gathered from a wide variety of sources: many exist only in manuscript form, others were published in Anglo-Indian newspapers, and still others can be found only in obscure editions. All were written between 1879-1889, during Kipling's years as a precocious school-boy and as a young journalist in India. Andrew Rutherford draws on unpublished correspondence and the files of Anglo-Indian newspapers fo reveal the ways in which many of the verses relate to issues, events, and personalities of the day, or to aspects of Kipling's own experience. The Early Verse of Kipling is a remarkable extension of the canon and a major contribution to our understanding of the poet at the formative stage of his literary career.
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1986
Andrew Rutherford was born on July 23, 1929, in Helmsdale, Sutherland, United Kingdom.
Andrew Rutherford attended George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh where he read English, graduating in 1951 with first-class honors.
Andrew Rutherford devoted his career to education, particularly to the study of English literature. In his writings, Rutherford concerned himself with authors such as Lord Byron and Rudyard Kipling. Early in his career, he served as an assistant lecturer at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland from 1955 till 1956 before becoming a lecturer in English literature until 1964. Then he joined the University of Aberdeen as a senior lecturer rising to the rank of professor of English in 1965 and Regius Professor of English literature in 1968. From 1979 to 1982 he served as the dean of the faculty of arts and social sciences, then he began a stint as vice principal. In 1984 he embarked on eight years as warden of Goldsmith’s College (now Goldsmiths, University of London) followed by three years as vice-chancellor at the University of London. From 1988 till 1992 he was a professor emeritus at the university as well.
Rutherford is also known as the author. Among his books are Byron: A Critical Study, Twentieth-Century Interpretations of "A Passage to India", and The Literature of War: Five Studies in Heroic Virtue. Rutherford edited Kipling's Mind and Art, Byron: The Critical Heritage, Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling, Byron: Augustan and Romantic, The Sayings of Rudyard Kipling, and Kipling’s Friendly Brook and Other Stories, Plain Tales from the Hills, Selected Stories, and War Stories and Poems. His first book, Byron, A Critical Study (1961), makes it clear that the Byron he admired was the witty, satirical Byron, the author of "Beppo" and the other ottava rima poems, rather than the self-indulgent Romantic poseur. Byron: the Critical Heritage volume followed in 1970, and one of his last publications was Byron: Augustan and Romantic (1990), a collection of essays by leading contemporary Byron scholars which Rutherford, as a vice-president of the Byron Society, brought together and edited.
Back in 1964, Rutherford had published Kipling's Mind and Art, a collection of essays by established figures such as George Orwell, Lionel Trilling, and Edmond Wilson, alongside younger critics like Wallace Robson, Mark Kinkead-Weekes, and Rutherford himself. This volume did much to stimulate the interest in Kipling that has made him a writer worthy of serious critical and scholarly attention. The furthering of this achievement one feels must have given Rutherford his greatest sense of satisfaction. Kipling was his kind of writer.
Kipling appears as one of the authors discussed in Rutherford's The Literature of War (1979), a challenging study that revivifies ideas of honor and heroism in modern literature, rejects simplistic notions of the nature of the experience of war, and characteristically records the author's gratitude for what he learned from the officers and men of the Seaforth Highlanders and the Somaliland Scouts. In the 1980s Rutherford's scholarly energies were devoted to editing his favorite author. He had become general editor of Oxford World's Classics Kipling, preparing and publishing two collections of stories and poems himself. However, his major achievement in this context has to be his Clarendon Press volume Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling 1879-1889 (1986) - an exhaustively researched and definitive work of outstanding scholarship.
(This volume collects over three hundred of Kipling's earl...)
1986(Byron: A Critical Study is an account of Byron's poetic a...)
1961(Kipling's Mind and Art assembles diverse critical essays ...)
1964During his career, Rutherford served as vice president of the Kipling Society and as president of the International Association of University Professors of English.
In 1953 Andrew Rutherford married Nancy Browning. The marriage produced two sons and a daughter.