Walter Sherard Vines (1890–1974), known as Sherard Vines, was an English author and academic. He began publishing poetry in the 1910s, then in the 1920s spent five years teaching at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. While in Japan and after his return to England, where he took up a post at University College Hull, he continued to publish poetry, fiction and criticism. His works include ''The Course of English Classicism from the Tudor to Victorian Age'' (1930), a study of classicism in British art; ''Yofuku, or, Japan in Trousers'' (1931), a travel book about his experiences in Japan which was critical of aspects of Japanese culture; and ''A Hundred Years of English Literature'' (1959), a survey of the literature of Britain, the British Empire and the United States.
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Walter Sherard Vines (1890–1974), known as Sherard Vines, was an English author and academic. He began publishing poetry in the 1910s, then in the 1920s spent five years teaching at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. While in Japan and after his return to England, where he took up a post at University College Hull, he continued to publish poetry, fiction and criticism. His works include ''The Course of English Classicism from the Tudor to Victorian Age'' (1930), a study of classicism in British art; ''Yofuku, or, Japan in Trousers'' (1931), a travel book about his experiences in Japan which was critical of aspects of Japanese culture; and ''A Hundred Years of English Literature'' (1959), a survey of the literature of Britain, the British Empire and the United States.
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