Helen Gardner
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Dame Helen Gardner, DBE, (1908-1986) was an English literary critic.
A fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford from 1942, she became professor of English literature in the University of Oxford in 1966. Her work led to great acclaim, being awarded the CBE in 1962 and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1967), and receiving honorary degrees from Cambridge, London, Harvard, and Yale universities. Her work was largely on T. S. Eliot, the Metaphysical poets, Milton, and religious poetry, with many books published on the subjects, as well as on literary criticism itself. She edited The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950 and The Metaphysical Poets.
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