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Reviews WILLIAM BLAKE —Essays in honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, edited by Morton D. Paley and Michael Phillips . Clarendon Press : Oxford University Press , 1973 ; pp. viii, 390 ; £10.50. STANLEY GARDNER STANLEY GARDNER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 22, Issue 2, February 1975, Pages 82–83, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/22-2-82 Published: 01 February 1975

Very Superior Men; The Border Ballads; William Blake: Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes; Wordsworth and the Sublime; Unofficial Selves; Charles Dickens: Radical Moralist

Very Superior Men; The Border Ballads; William Blake: Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes; Wordsworth and the Sublime; Unofficial Selves; Charles Dickens: Radical Moralist

William Blake: Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes

William Blake: Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - A Bibliography of Sir William Petty, F.R.S. and of Observations on the Bills of Mortality by John Graunt, F.R.S. By SirGeoffrey Keynes. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xviii + 103. £5.50.

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - A Bibliography of Sir William Petty, F.R.S. and of Observations on the Bills of Mortality by John Graunt, F.R.S. By SirGeoffrey Keynes. Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xviii + 103. £5.50. - Volume 6 Issue 3

A Bibliography of Sir William Petty, F.R.S. and of

Somewhat neglected because few of his works were published in his lifetime (and some remain unpublished today), Sir William Petty (1623-1687), an early and influential member of the Royal Society, was a seminal figure in the development of economic theory and ideas of social welfare. Early in his career he was professor of anatomy at Oxford, and scattered through his writings are ideas on education of doctors, the role of hospitals in society, and a concept of egalitarianism in medical care prefiguring 19th and 20th century reforms. The Observations on the Bills of Mortality , by John Graunt (1620-1674), was the first serious effort to deal with what has become the study of vital statistics, and Petty assisted Graunt in preparing them for publication, inasmuch as they furnished a useful application of his theory of political arithmetic. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, himself a physician widely admired for his biography of William Harvey

Autobiography and Artistic Sensibility in Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh

One of the commonest delusions of beginning writers that a short story or novel merely the concrete, dramatic recollection of experience, and if these beginning writers are moderately literate, they will argue that art springs from memory and autobiographical experience. They are, of course, partly correct. For example, Charles Nolte, commenting on his play, End of Ramadan, admits that it partly autobiographical-everything you write is.' It equally true, however, that art design, a symbolic construction in which literal experience shaped and selected for thematic purpose. The writers most frequently cited for transmuting autobiography into art are Thomas Wolfe and Samuel Butler. It widely believed that both writers did little more than alter surnames and place names, and then, mysteriously as from Aaron's furnace, sprang forth those golden calves, Look Homeward, Angel and The Way of All Flesh. Of the two, it urged that Butler had less consciousness of design and purpose and hence more reliance upon autobiography than Wolfe had. Therefore, the stronger case for the necessity of conscious artistry can be made from an examination of The Way of All Flesh. In this novel, characters are rigidly patterned to objectify values which serve as tensions in a carefully controlled fiction world; this means that they are stripped of the chaotic richness and ambiguity of actual people in order to dramatize the forces which give coherent structure to the novel. Theobald Pontifex usually identified as the most sustained autobiographical figure in The Way of All Flesh. He has been seen as a very thinly disguised version of Samuel father, Canon Thomas Butler. It must be admitted that certain qualities of Canon Butler do appear in Theobald. Much Butler criticism has concentrated on the biographical parallels to the neglect of careful structuring of his fictional world and the patterning of his characters. For example, close friend and biographer, Henry Festing Jones, claims that the boyhood of Ernest Pontifex is faithfully drawn from own childhood, Theobald and Christina being portraits of his father and mother as accurate as he could make them, with no softening and no exaggeration.'2 Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill, editors of notebooks, tell us: Butler's father and mother have achieved an unenviable immortality as Theobald and Christina Pontifex in The Way of All Flesh. His sisters' less amiable characteristics are reflected in Charlotte Pontifex in the same book.3 According to Philip Henderson, Canon and Mrs. Butler

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Journal Article Reviews Get access A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE, KT., M.D. , by Geoffrey Keynes , Second edition revised and augmented. Oxford : Clarendon Press . 1970 ; pp. xv , 293 ; £7 7s. J. H. P. PAFFORD J. H. P. PAFFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 17, Issue 11, November 1970, Pages 433-b–434, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/17-11-433b Published: 01 November 1970

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Geoffrey Keynes, ed., The Letters of William Blake, reviewed by G.E. Bentley Jr. William Blake, The Gates of Paradise: For Children, For the Sexes, reviewed by G.E. Bentley Jr. Geoffrey Keynes, ed., Europe: A Prophecy, reviewed by G.E. Bentley Jr. Geoffrey Keynes, ed., Songs of Innocence and of Experience, reviewed by G.E. Bentley Jr. Anne Malcolmson, ed., William Blake: An Introduction, reviewed by G.E. Bentley Jr. David V. Erdman, ed., A Concordance to the Writings of William Blake, reviewed by G.E. Bentley Jr. B.N. De Luna, Jonson's Romish Plot: A Study of Catiline and its Historical Context,reviewed by Alexander Leggatt Roma A. King Jr., The Focusing Artifice: The Poetry of Robert Browning, reviewed by W. David Shaw Mary Rose Sullivan, Browning's Voices in the Ring and the BOok: A Study in Method and Meaning, reviewed by W. David Shaw Elvan Kintner, ed., The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett 1845–1846, reviewed by W. David Shaw

Harold Haydon Storey, 1894-1969

Harold Haydon Storey was born on 10 June 1894 at Ashton-on-Mersey, Manchester; he was the fourth child of a family of four brothers and one sister. His father, Henry Storey, came from a family of engineers who established themselves in Manchester during the latter part of the nineteenth century. His mother, Marie Louisa (Ford), was a grand-daughter of David Everard Ford, a congregational minister, and was first cousin of Mrs Neville Keynes, once mayor of Cambridge. Storey was thus distantly related to, or connected with, the late Lord Keynes, Geoffrey Keynes and Professor A. V. Hill, and also with the late Sir Walter Langdon Brown, once Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge. His mother was a Justice of the Peace for the last twenty years of her life. Of Storey’s brothers, the eldest, John Everard, graduated at Manchester University in engineering; the second brother, Robert, graduated also at Manchester in chemistry, where he was a colleague of Sir Robert Robinson, Professor Simonsen, Professor Haworth and Dr E. Marsden. Both these brothers went into industry after serving in the first World War. The third brother, Gilbert, was a scholar of Queens’ College, Cambridge. After graduation he became Entomologist to the Egyptian Government, and later Secretary to the Cotton Research Board, shortly before his death in 1922. The youngest brother has spent his life in commerce mainly in the island of Trinidad, where he has recently been nominated a member of the Legislative Council.

Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, ed. by Geoffrey Keynes, London, Faber & Faber, 1968, pp. 416, illus., 50s.

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Professor Douglas McKie, F. R. S. E

Notes and Records has good reason to mourn the death of Douglas McKie as for many years successive editors so often called on him for help and advice and his rich store of knowledge and his critical judgment were always most generously placed at their disposal. He contributed to our Tercentenary Volume, Origins and Founders , his article, ‘The Origins and Foundation of the Royal Society of London’, the best account of the events leading up to the birth of the Royal Society and of the intellectual climate in which it was formed, that has yet been written. It was a labour of love to which McKie devoted much study. Many of his findings were confirmed by Sir Geoffrey Keynes in his recent Wilkins Lecture. Written in McKie’s clear narrative style with its admirable balance like all McKie’s writings it will always be a pleasure to read. In the planning of Origins and Founders , in the choice of authors and in some of the delicate problems that arose in the editing, McKie’s intimate study of seventeenth-century science was of the utmost value. So the Royal Society now acknowledges its debt to him.

's Blood! Life and Work of HarveyThe Life of William Harvey. Geoffrey Keynes

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Maurice Neville Hill, 1919-1966

Maurice Hill was born in Cambridge on 29 May 1919. His father was A. V. Hill, the distinguished physiologist, who was at that time a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. In 1913, A. V. Hill married Margaret Keynes, the sister of Maynard Keynes, the economist, and of Geoffrey Keynes, the surgeon and author of erudite bibliographies of William Harvey, John Donne and others. Margaret’s father was J. N. Keynes (1852-1949), Registrary to the University, a Fellow of Pembroke College until his marriage, and the author of a well-known book on statistics. His wife Florence Ada Keynes ( née Brown), who was one of the earliest students of Newnham College, was Mayor of Cambridge in 1932 and published two books, one when she was 86 and the other three years later. Maurice was the youngest of a family of four children, having one brother and two sisters. Shortly after Maurice’s birth, the family moved to Manchester where A. V. Hill became Professor of Physiology and received a Nobel Prize. In 1923 they moved to Highgate when A. V. Hill became Professor of Physiology at University College London. At the age of six Maurice went to Byron House School. His school reports have been preserved; they give a picture of an intelligent little boy with an ‘open, happy nature’, interested in many things but finding neatness in writing hard to attain. In 1928 he went to Highgate Junior School where he stayed for almost three years. His performance and reports were undistinguished and he was sent for a year and a half to Avondale, a boarding school at Clifton, near Bristol. Here his work at once improved and he was consistently near the top of his class. In 1932 he returned to Highgate and started in the Senior School as a day boy. He remained there till 1938. From the start he found an interest in physics and mathematics.

William Harvey and the Circulation

The discovery of the circulation marked a turning point in the history of thought, and consequently, William Harvey will always hold a dominant place among the immortals of medical science. Yet, when we compare him with many figures of lesser prominence, biographical data are quite sparse and primary documents, on which all biography must ultimately rest, relatively scanty. A biographer, therefore, in portraying Harvey, must emphasize the relationships into which he entered, the people with whom he came in contact, and the events in which he participated. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, the outstanding authority on Sir Thomas Browne as well as on Harvey, has just published the<i>Life of William Harvey</i>,¹which will long stand as the definitive biography. Perhaps a more appropriate title might have been "The Life and Times" of William Harvey. Keynes depicts Harvey in relation to his friends, professional colleagues, and patients; to his sovereigns James

The Life of William Harvey — Peeping Medicos — Clinical Postscript

TWO things strike one on handling the beautiful new book on Harvey by Sir Geoffrey Keynes published last year by the Oxford University Press. The first is a bewilderment at the achievements of this giant of a man who lived three centuries ago, and the second is an unbounded admiration for the diligent research of the author, which enabled him to construct such a remarkable account of so many of Harvey's previously little appreciated activities. In his preface Sir Geoffrey points out that the emphasis in this book is on the character of Harvey rather than on his scientific work, . . .

Book Reviews

Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Life of William Harvey. Geoffrey Keynes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966. xviii+483 pages; 32 plates + frontisplece in colour; 26×18 cm. £4 10s. C. H. Andrewes C. H. Andrewes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar British Medical Bulletin, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 1967, Page 103, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a070505 Published: 01 January 1967

A Study of the Illuminated Books of William Blake: Poet, Printer, Prophet

A Study of the Illuminated Books of William Blake: Poet, Printer, Prophet Get access A Study of the Illuminated Books of William Blake: Poet, Printer, Prophet. By Geoffrey Keynes. Methuen, with the Trianon Press, Paris. £4. 4s. Margaret Willy Margaret Willy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar English: Journal of the English Association, Volume 16, Issue 91, Spring 1966, Pages 22-a–22, https://doi.org/10.1093/english/16.91.22-a Published: 01 March 1966

The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Geoffrey Keynes

<i>The Works of Sir Thomas Browne</i>. Geoffrey Keynes

Dr. Timothie Bright, 1550-1615: A Survey of His Life With a Biography of His Writings.

Timothie Bright was "The Father of Modern Shorthand" and the author of an important precursor to "The Anatomy of Melancholy," entitled, "Treatise of Melancholie," 1586. He was not, as far as I know, an ancestor of the much more famous Richard Bright, but he did have some claim to fame in being the great-grandfather of the celebrated Restoration dramatist, William Congreve. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, whose distinguished contributions to bibliography, medical history, and culture make him a splendid ornament of our time, chose Dr. Timothie Bright as the subject for his Gideon de Laune Lecture, delivered at Apothecaries Hall, April 28, 1961. He took the somewhat meager historic facts we have, and sought out all the copies he could find of Bright's various books and their several editions. From this he built a learned bibliography, complete with many photographs of title pages and other parts of the several books. From this

Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Dr. Timothie Bright, 2550-1625. A Survey of his Life with a bibliography of his writings. 47 pages, 17 plates. The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, London 1962.

Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Dr. Timothie Bright, 2550-1625. A Survey of his Life with a bibliography of his writings. 47 pages, 17 plates. The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, London 1962.