 Basil Willey

Basil Willey (July 25, 1897 – September 3, 1978) was a professor of English literature at the University of Cambridge and author of well-written and scholarly works on English literature and intellectual history.He was born in London in 1897 and educated at University College School, Hampstead, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he won a scholarship in 1915; conscripted into the West Yorkshire Regiment soon after, he eventually graduated in 1921 with a first-class degree in History and English.