THOMAS ), English writer (pseudonym "Q"), born in Cornwall on Nov. 21, 1863. He was educated at Clifton college and Trinity college, Oxford, where he was afterwards appointed lecturer in classics (1886-87). While he was at Ox ford he published (1887) his Dead Man's Rock (a romance in the vein of Stevenson's Treasure Island), following it up with Troy Town (1888) and The Splendid Spur (1889). Gaining some journalistic experience in London, mainly as a contributor to the Speaker, in 1891 he settled at Fowey in Cornwall, and wrote several Cornish tales, including The Blue Pavilions (1891), The Ship of Stars (1899), Hetty Wesley (1903), The Shining Ferry (1905). He published several volumes of critical articles, Adventures in Criticism (1896) ; On the Art of Writing (1916); Studies in Literature (1918 ; and series, 1927; 3d series, 1929), and Shakespeare's Workmanship (Bristol, 1918). In 1898 he com
pleted R. L. Stevenson's St. Ives. From his Oxford days he was known as a writer of excellent verse ; most of his poetical work is contained in Poems and Ballads (1896). In 1895 he published a delightful anthology from the 16th and 17th century lyrists.
The Golden Pomp, followed in 1900 by the invaluable Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900, probably the best general an thology of English verse, the Oxford Book of Ballads Ow 0), the Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1912) and the Oxford Book of English Prose (1925). In 1910 Quiller-Couch was knighted. In 1912 he was appointed King Edward VII. professor of English literature at Cambridge, and was elected fellow of Jesus college, Cambridge. A complete edition of the Tales and Romances of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch began in 1928; Poems (1929).