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Abstract
In ‘Introduction I. A Festschrift for William Atkinson’, Ann L. Mackenzie begins by explaining why William Atkinson had not previously received a Festschrift—neither upon his retirement in 1972 nor even following his death in 1992. She goes on to provide compelling reasons for rectifying this omission, and for doing so in the form of a Special Double Issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies. She refers in particular to Atkinson’s pioneering role in establishing Portuguese Studies and Latin American Studies as major fields of learning in UK universities. She also points to the principal part he played in 1953 to ensure the continuation of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies after the death of E. Allison Peers, its founder-editor. Mackenzie is also informative about the contents of the Festschrift and its contributors, some of whom were once students of Atkinson in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Glasgow University. Other contributors either graduated later from that same Department at Glasgow or used to be members of its staff. Mackenzie goes on to discuss the topics, authors, periods and countries dealt with in the contributed articles, all of which, in some significant respect or degree, reflect Atkinson’s own publications on the literatures, cultures and histories of Spain, Portugual and Latin America.
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1 Both quotations are taken from a letter sent by Geoff Connell, Lytham St Annes to Ann Mackenzie, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, University of Glasgow, dated 17 May 2013 (Glasgow University’s Archives); cited below, at greater length.
2 See Studies for I. L. McClelland. A Special Issue, ed., with an intro., by David T. Gies, Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment, Aesthetics, and Literary Theory, 9:1–2 (1986); The Eighteenth-Century in Spain. Essays in Honour of I. L. McClelland, ed., with an intro., by Ann L. Mackenzie, BHS, LXVIII:1 (1991). A third Festschrift was to appear after Ivy’s death in 2006, once more through the Bulletin, by then based at Glasgow University: Hesitancy and Experimentation in Enlightenment Spain and Spanish America. Studies on Culture and Theatre in Memory of I. L. McClelland, ed., with an intro., by Ann L. Mackenzie & Jeremy Robbins, BSS, LXXXVI:7–8 (2009).
3 His expressed pleasure in the Bulletin’s Volume for Ivy is especially commendable, if, as seems likely, Atkinson had known for almost twenty years that the Bulletin in 1971–1972 refused to publish a Festschrift for him. His knowledge of that refusal might explain why on his retirement from Glasgow University in 1972, he wrote to Geoffrey Ribbans, ‘to withdraw also from the membership of the Committee of the Bulletin’ (see ‘Editorial Note’, BHS, XLIX:4 [1972], 432).
4 See William C. Atkinson, ‘Programme for a School of Latin-American Studies’, in International Hispanic Number, BSS, XXIV:94 (1947), 139–46 (pp. 140–42, 145).
5 Gustavo San Román, ‘The Rise of Modern Latin American Literary Studies in the UK: A Questionnaire to Early Practitioners’, in Latin American Studies in the UK, ed., with an intro., by William Rowe, Luis Rebaza-Soraluz & Claudio Canaparo, BSS, LXXXIV:4–5 (2007), ‘Section I: Looking Back’, 447–94; see especially pp. 450–52, 465–67.
6 See E. Allison Peers, ‘The Next Quarter-Century’, BHS, XXVI:101 (1949), 1–2 (p. 2).
7 For Harold Hall’s devoted work for the Bulletin, not least in the aftermath of Peers’ death, see Albert E. Sloman, ‘Foreword’, [H. B. Hall] Memorial Number, BHS, LIX:3 (1982), 189–90; Ann L. Mackenzie, ‘Introduction’ to Hispanic Studies in Honour of Geoffrey Ribbans, ed., with an intro., by Ann L. Mackenzie & Dorothy S. Severin, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies Special Homage Volume (1992), 1–22 (p. 7). Audrey Lumsden (later to become Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel), continued to support the Bulletin until her death, in her late nineties, in 2017. Not least, she did so financially for many years, by donating all the income that came to her, as one of three life-time beneficiaries from Peers’ estate. The funds Audrey provided proved indispensable after the Bulletin’s move to Glasgow University; besides helping with the legal costs incurred by the dispute with Liverpool University, in 1996 Audrey endowed the E. Allison Peers Research Fellowship at Glasgow University, to support the journal.
8 Extract from an email sent by James Whiston to Ann Mackenzie, dated 29 January 2013, welcoming the proposed Festschrift; when she received it, it was sixty years to the day since Atkinson took over as the Bulletin’s interim Editor.
9 See M. P. Costeloe & A. Yates, ‘Antoni Turull (1933–1990), BHS, LXVII:3 (1990), 285–86. Arseni Pacheco died in 2011.
10 Atkinson mentions Geoffrey Connell’s appointment to the post at Glasgow University in some of the letters he wrote to me in 1965–1967 (reproduced below in Part I).
11 Donald Shaw died in January 2017. For Shaw’s career and comments on his years at Glasgow University, see David T. Gies & Ann L. Mackenzie, ‘Who? Me. A Memoir: Donald Leslie Shaw (1930–2017)’, BSS, XCIV:1 (2017), 149–55. For additional information on Shaw, see below, Mackenzie, ‘Introduction II. William C. Atkinson (1902–1992): Scholar of Spain, Portugal and Latin America’; see its note 40.
12 See Arthur Terry, ‘Pablo Neruda: El fantasma del buque de carga’, in Readings in Spanish and Portuguese Poetry for Geoffrey Connell, ed. Nicholas G. Round & D. Gareth Walters (Glasgow: Dept of Hispanic Studies, Univ. of Glasgow, 1985), 241–58.
13 Letter from Geoffrey Connell to Ann Mackenzie, dated Lytham St Annes, 17 May 2013.
14 See Bernard McGuirk, ‘Geoffrey W. Connell (1928–2014)’, BSS, XCIII:1 (2016), 153–56.
15 Atkinson refers to this appointment he arranged for me at Glasgow in his letters reproduced below.
16 For more on Atkinson’s role in fostering Anglo-Russian cultural relations and exchanges, see below, Atkinson, Fragments of University Reminiscence, Chapter 2, ‘1932–: Glasgow and a Chair’. See also Atkinson’s letter to the Editor, ‘Students of Russian: Cultural Exchanges Essential’, The Times, 17 August 1954, p. 7; and his article, ‘On Friendship with Russia’, The Fortnightly (July 1954), 27–33.
17 This fact was told to me by Ivy McClelland during one of many agreeable conversations I had with her down the years in which she recalled people and events from the years when Professor Atkinson was Head of the Department of Hispanic Studies at Glasgow.
18 See William C. Atkinson, ‘Literature and the Arts—II’, in his A History of Spain and Portugal. The Peninsula and Its Peoples: The Pattern of Their Society and Civilization (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1960), Chapter 11, 204–14 (p. 211).
19 Atkinson, ‘Literature and the Arts—III’, in A History of Spain and Portugal, Chapter 15, 343–52 (p. 345).
20 See below, The Poems and Aphorisms of Mário Quintana, selected, translated & introduced by Giovanni Pontiero; quoted from his Introduction: ‘Mário Quintana, the Sorcerer’s Apprentice’.
21 Luis Vaz de Camoens, The Lusiads, trans., with an intro., by W. C. Atkinson (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952; reprinted 1973).
22 For full details of this and other works translated by Atkinson, see below Introduction II; and its notes 75, 76 & 77.
23 For these quotations, see William C. Atkinson, ‘Translation from Spanish’, in A Handbook to the Study and Teaching of Spanish, ed. & intro. by E. Allison Peers (London: Methuen & Co., 1938), Part I, Chapter VI, 88–114 (pp. 88, 101).
24 For his experiences of Mexico and other Latin-American countries, see Atkinson, Fragments of University Reminiscence, Chapter 5, ‘1962–: Brave New World’.
25 See below, in Fragments of University Reminiscence, Chapter 5, ‘1962–: Brave New World’. See, too, his unpublished paper (dated 23 April 1972) on ‘The Independence of Brazil, 1822’ (Glasgow University’s Archives), prepared for the Central Office of Information to mark the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Brazil’s independence. See also William C. Atkinson, ‘The Literature of Brazil’, The Nineteenth Century and After (May 1948), 10 pp.
26 For these observations and quotations from Atkinson, see below, William C. Atkinson, ‘A Rolling Stone Bows Out’ (first published in the Glasgow University Gazette, 67 [December 1971], 1–3).
27 Hernán Pérez de Oliva, Teatro, a critical edition, with intro. & notes, by William Atkinson, Revue Hispanique, LXIX:156 (1927), 521–659; William Atkinson, Hernán Pérez de Oliva: A Biographical and Critical Study, Revue Hispanique, LXXI:160 (1927), 309–484.
28 ‘Studies in Literary Decadence’ appeared in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, IV:13–16 (1927). For ‘Studies in Literary Decadence: I.—The Picaresque Novel’, most relevant for present purposes, see BSS, IV:13 (1927), 19–27.
29 See William C. Atkinson, ‘The Political Structure of the Portuguese “New State” ’, The Nineteenth Century and After, 122 (1937), 346–54; ‘Portugal, the War and After’, The Fortnightly (July 1944), 17–23; ‘What Next in Portugal?’, The Fortnightly (June 1951), 372–78.
30 See William C. Atkinson, ‘Portugal and Spain’, The Dublin Review, 402 (1937), 40–50.
31 See William C. Atkinson, ‘Spain’s Two Republics’, The Dublin Review, 400 (1937), 8–20; ‘Spanish Affairs in an Impasse’, The Fortnightly ([?]1937), 267–76; ‘The Civil War and After’, The Fortnightly (October [?]1939), 410–21; ‘Dr Negrín’s Thirteen Points’, The Fortnightly (January 1939), 27–35; ‘The Falangist Twilight’ [by ‘Adamastor’ (William C. Atkinson)], The Fortnightly (April 1944), 219–26; ‘The Spanish Political Situation’, The World Today, Chatham House Review (November 1945), 213–21; ‘Inquest on the Spanish Civil War’, The Fortnightly (October 1951), 672–78.
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