(*24. december 1822, Laleham, Middlesex – †15. april 1888, pokopan v All Saints’ Churchyard, Laleham, Middlesex), pesnik, kulturni kritik, šolnik. Obiskoval je Rugby in potem Balliol College, Oxford. Kasneje je bil zasebni tajnik Lorda Lansdowa in z njegovim vplivom postal šolski inšpektor. Bil je profesor za poezijo v Oksfordu.
Glavna dela:
THE STRAYED REVELLER, pesniška zbirka (1849)
EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA, pesniška zbirka (1952)
POEMS (1853)
POEMS, 2nd Series (1855)
MEROPE (1858)
NEW POEMS (1867)
ON TRANSLATING HOMER (1861 and 1862
ON THE STUDY OF CELTIC LITERATURE (1867)
ESSAYS IN CELTIC LITERATURE (1868)
ESSAYS IN CRITICISM, 2nd Series (1888)
CULTURE AND ANARCHY (1869)
ST. PAUL AND PROTESTANTISM (1870)
FRIENDSHIP’S GARLAND (1871)
LITERATURE AND DOGMA (1873)
GOD AND THE BIBLE (1875)
LAST ESSAYS ON CHURCH AND RELIGION (1877)
MIXED ESSAYS (1879)
IRISH ESSAYS (1882)
