Quiller-Couch

American  

[kwil-er-kooch] / ˈkwɪl ərˈkutʃ /

noun

1. Sir Arthur Thomas Q, 1863–1944, English novelist and critic.

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Quiller-Couch British  

/ ˌkwɪləˈkuːtʃ /

noun

1. Sir Arthur ( Thomas ), known as Q . 1863–1944, British critic and novelist, who edited the Oxford Book of English Verse (1900)

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Example Sentences

Said learned Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge since 1912: "I had no idea of its origin."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 80, dean of English belle-lettrists, two months after he was hit by a jeep; in Fowey, Cornwall.

From Time Magazine Archive

To write jargon," says Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in his book, "On the Art of Writing," "is to be perpetually shuffling around in the fog and cotton-wool of abstract terms.

From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor

And yet, I think, had Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch been born ten years later Cornwall had not wanted a shanachie.

From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Weygandt, Cornelius

All lovers of poetry cannot help being indebted to Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who showed he knew what constitutes poetry when he composed the famous Oxford Book of English Verse.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert