Scholarly Send-off
The Times pays tribute to W.J.B Owen, academia’s pre-eminent Wordsworth scholar. Born in NZ in 1916, Owen forged a distinguished career in England and Canada. “Owen was a scholar’s scholar – meticulous, exact, exhaustive and always reliable […] Outwardly he could seem daunting, but within the austere exterior was a sensitive, diffident man, with a wry, dry wit.”
W.J.B Owen: died 2002
