Calder, Angus Lindsay

Calder, Angus Lindsay
▪ 2009

      Scottish critic, poet, and historian

born Feb. 5, 1942, Sutton, Surrey, Eng.

died June 5, 2008, Edinburgh, Scot.
published numerous literary criticisms, collections of poetry, and historical analyses, but he was especially admired for his critical work T.S. Eliot (1987). Calder's impact as a historian was mainly based on his doctoral thesis, The People's War: Britain, 1939–1945 (1969, reissued 1992), in which he questioned British tactics during World War II through the eyes of ordinary citizens; the book garnered him a Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1970. He wrote several other works concerning British history, including Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empires from the Fifteenth Century to the 1780s (1981) and The Myth of the Blitz (1991).Calder earned an English degree from King's College, Cambridge, and a doctorate in World War II politics in the U.K. from the University of Sussex, Brighton, Eng. Although he taught at several international universities, his longest tenure was the 14 years (1979–93) he spent on the faculty at Scotland's Open University. In 1967 Calder won an Eric Gregory Award for his poetry, and in 1984 he helped establish the Scottish Poetry Library.

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