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    plaque commemorates his death in the Old Church cemetery in Macugnaga. A W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture is held at Glasgow University in his honour. He is referred...
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    crowned by his burial among the literary giants in Westminster Abbey. W. P. Ker, in the Cambridge History of English Literature, observes that "all Macpherson's...
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    2015-03-24. Retrieved 2021-07-05. W. P. Ker, Epic And Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature pp. 52–53 Hare (1908), p. 201. Hare (1908), pp. 211–218. Eisenberg...
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    they "interrupt the story", W. W. Lawrence, who stated that they "clog the action and distract attention from it", and W. P. Ker who found some "irrelevant...
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  • who are defeated, think that defeat no refutation. — Tolkien, quoting W. P. Ker, The Dark Ages Shippey adds that warhorns exemplify the "heroic Northern...
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    typical dragon of Old English proverbial lore" because he guards treasure. W. P. Ker criticized the inclusion of Beowulf's fight with the dragon and his subsequent...
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    London in October 1915, beginning an Arts degree and attending lectures by W. P. Ker, the medievalist Francis Charles Montague, and A. F. Pollard. Wishing...
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  • educated at University College, studying under such eminent scholars as W. P. Ker and A. E. Housman; he was Librarian at that institution from 1901 to 1922...
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    vectors w 1 , … , w n − k {\displaystyle w_{1},\ldots ,w_{n-k}} to form a full basis of V {\displaystyle V} . Let S := { w 1 , … , w n − k } ⊂ V ∖ Ker ⁡ (...
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    in Criticism (1942) [Clark Lectures] Antony and Cleopatra, the fourth W. P. Ker memorial lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow, 4 May 1943 (1944)...
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