Robert Woof (scholar)

Born in Lancaster, England, Robert Samuel Woof was the youngest of three children; their father was bailiff of Home Farm, part of the Royal Albert Institution, Lancaster

Early years: attended Scotforth School and Lancaster Royal Grammar School

1949: on a cycling tour: first visit to Dove Cottage

1953: graduation from Pembroke College, Oxford, where he had studied with a scholarship

1958: married Pamela Moore (two sons, two daughters)

1958–61: doctorate with Goldsmith Travelling Fellowship as a lecturer at University of Toronto, PhD thesis on 'The Literary Relations of Wordsworth and Coleridge 1795–1803'

1961–62: Lord Adams of Ennerdale Fellow

1962–71: University of Newcastle upon Tyne Lecturer

1971–92: Reader in English Literature at University of Newcastle upon Tyne

1983–84: Leverhulme Fellow

1974–89: Honorary Keeper of collections of books, manuscripts and paintings at Dove Cottage

1978–95: Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of Dove Cottage

1982–88: Vice-Chairman, Drama Panel, Arts Council

1985–86: Acting chairman, Drama Panel, Arts Council

1983–84: Vice-Chairman, Literature Panel

1984–88: Chairman, Literature Panel

1989–2005: Director, Wordsworth Trust and Wordsworth museum

1993–2000: Chairman, English Touring Theatre

1998: Commander of the Order of the British Empire

2000: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

2005: Died in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

• William Wordsworth: Critical Heritage (Critical Heritage S.), Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd – 22 November 2001, ISBN 978-0-415-03441-8, Hardcover
• With Michael Broughton; William Clarke; John Murdoch; Joanna Selbourne; Greg Smith; The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 31 January 2006, ISBN 978-1-905256-03-7
• With Jean-Paul Martinon; Hamish Robinson; Daniel Sturgis; Rebecca O'Connor; Daniel Buren: At the Wordsworth Trust, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, September 2005, ISBN 978-1-905256-01-3
• Treasures of the Wordsworth Trust: Published to Celebrate the Opening of the Jerwood Centre at the Wordsworth Trust by Seamus Heaney, 2 June 2005, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, June 2005, ISBN 978-1-905256-00-6 (hardcover: ISBN 978-1-905256-04-4)
• With Daniel Sturgis; Matthew Collings; Kathy Kubickif; Abstract Logic, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, May 2005, ISBN 978-1-870787-99-4
• With Conrad Atkinson; Richard Cork; Henry Shukman; Common Sights, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, January 2005, ISBN 978-1-870787-89-5
• With Keith Coventry; Des Lawrence; Matthew Hollis; Joan Key; Kay Rosen; Lily van der Stokker; Daniel Sturgis; Between Letters and Abstraction, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, January 2005, ISBN 978-1-870787-97-0
• With Jack Mapanje; Simon Morley; An Elegy Wrote in an English Churchyard, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, January 2005, ISBN 978-1-870787-86-4
• With Christopher Bucklow; Marina Warner; Roger Malbert; Adam Phillips; If This Be Not I, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, June 2003, ISBN 978-1-870787-95-6
• Co-editor with Alice Oswald and Peter Oswald; Earth Has Not Any Thing to Shew More Fair: A Bicentennial Celebration of Wordsworth's Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Shakespeare's Globe & The Wordsworth Trust, 2002, ISBN 978-1-870787-84-0
• English Poetry 850–1850: The first thousand years: with some romantic perspectives, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 2000, ISBN 978-1-870787-70-3
• Romantic icons: The National Portrait Gallery at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 1999, ISBN 978-1-870787-60-4
• With Stephen Hebron; Towards Tintern Abbey: Bicentenary of "Lyrical Ballads", 1798, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, July 1998, ISBN 978-1-870787-55-0
• With Fay Godwin; A Perfect Republic of Shepherds, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, June 1997, ISBN 978-1-870787-30-7
• With Stephen Hebron; John Keats, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 1995, ISBN 978-1-870787-15-4
• Shelley: An Ineffectual Angel?, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, December 1992, ISBN 978-1-870787-00-0
• Tennyson, 1809–1892: A Centenary Celebration, Tennyson Society, July 1992, ISBN 978-0-901958-30-3
• Artist as Evacuee: Royal College of Art in the Lake District 1940–1945, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, December 1987, ISBN 978-0-9510616-3-3
• With Jonathan Wordsworth; Michael C. Jaye; William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism, Piscataway, New Jersey, US: Rutgers University Press, 1987, ISBN 978-0-8135-1274-7
• With John Murdoch; The Discovery of the Lake District: A Northern Arcadia and Its Uses, Faber & Faber, October 1986, ISBN 978-0-905209-96-8
• With David Thomason; Derwentwater – The Vale of Elysiums: An Eighteenth Century Story, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, December 1986, ISBN 978-0-9510616-2-6
• Thomas de Quincey: An English Opium Eater 1785–1859, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, December 1985, ISBN 978-0-9510616-0-2
• Wordsworth Circle: Studies of Twelve Members of Wordsworth's Circle of Friends, Trustees of Dove Cottage, Grasmere, July 1979, ISBN 978-0-9501238-4-4

• Site of the Wordsworth Trust
• Obituary in The Guardian (November 2005)
• "Robert Woof CBE", Fellows Remembered, The Royal Society of Literature