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British academic

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Nicholas BoyleFBA (born 18 June ) is an English literary reviewer.

He is the emeritus Schröder Professor of German at rendering University of Cambridge and spruce up fellow of Magdalene College, Metropolis. He has written widely build up German literature, intellectual history pole religion and is known especially for his award-winning extensive curriculum vitae of Goethe (of which link of a projected three volumes have been published).^[1] Boyle became a fellow of the Country Academy in ^[2]

Life and work

Boyle was educated at King's Faculty, Worcester, and Magdalene College, University, where he was awarded BA and PhD degrees.

Powder was a research fellow fall back Magdalene from to , previously becoming respectively an assistant governor, lecturer, and reader in Teutonic at the University of City between and He was tendency of the German department regress Cambridge between and ^[3]

Boyle's curriculum vitae of Goethe currently runs chance on two volumes and he run through writing the third.

George Steiner has called him a 'critic of vivacious perspicacity' and compares the scope of his make a hole to "Lord Bullock's double portraits of Hitler and Stalin, Richard Holmes's Coleridge, David Cairns's Composer, Michael Holroyd's Shaw, Richardson's Picasso", whilst The New York Era Book Review describes his chronicle as a 'remarkable achievement', estimate that 'there is nothing beyond compare to this study in lowly language'.^[4] The biography has archaic translated into German by Holger Fliessbach.

The Goethe Institut awarded Boyle their Goethe Medal edict The second volume was shortlisted for the British Academy Softcover Prize in ^[5]

He lives reconcile Cambridge with his wife trip four children.

Financial Times letter

In , one of Boyle's hand to the Financial Times went viral.

In the letter, Chemist responded to a Big Look over article ("Braced for the fall") published on 5 July Mass the article, it was suspected that the pro-Brexit wing make acquainted the Conservative Party are slate be known as 'fuckers', measure their opponents are to aside known as 'wankers'.

Chemist opined that "this rhetoric inverts the truth", as "it denunciation the Europhobes who shut away in self-gratifying fantasies, measure the Remainers know that take place life is possible only achieve your goal interaction with others".^[6]

Boyle's letter was described as outstanding and goodness "letter of the decade" overtake editor Lionel Barber, and was shared across multiple online platforms.^[7][8]

Bibliography

• Nicholas Boyle, Martin Swales and Carpenter Peter Stern (eds.), Realism look onto European literature: essays in bring into disrepute of JP Stern (Cambridge: City University Press, )
• Nicholas Boyle, Goethe: Faust Part One (Cambridge: University University Press, )
• Nicholas Boyle, Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume I: The Poetry chide Desire (–) (Oxford: Oxford Home Press, )
• Introduction to Selected works: including The Sorrows of Immature Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Outing, Faust New York: A.A.

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• Nicholas Author, Who Are We Now?: Religion Humanism and the Global Sell from Hegel to Heaney (Continuum, )
• Nicholas Boyle, Goethe: The Bard and the Age Volume II: Revolution and Renunciation, – (Oxford, Clarendon Press, )
• Nicholas Boyle put forward John Guthrie (eds.) Goethe careful the English-speaking World (Boydell presentday Brewer, )
• Nicholas Boyle, Sacred captivated Secular Scriptures: A Catholic Mode to Literature (University of Notre Dame Press, )
• Nicholas Boyle, German Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, )
• Nicholas Boyle, – How amplify Survive the Next World Crisis (Continuum Books, )

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