Ueda Ryuson

…English and French literature scholar, poet, and critic. He used the pen name Yanagimura in his early days. Born in Tsukiji, Tokyo, as the son of a former Shogunate official. After attending First Higher School, he graduated from the Department of English Literature at the University of Tokyo. He served as a professor at the Tokyo Higher Normal School, a lecturer at the University of Tokyo, and a professor at Kyoto University. While attending First Higher School, he became a member of the Bungakukai (literature world) along with Shimazaki Toson and others, and after entering the University of Tokyo, he participated in the founding of Teikoku Bungaku (imperial literature) and became a member of the editorial committee for the first period. He serialized articles introducing the literary trends of European countries in the magazine, and published a critical biography of Jesus (1899), a collection of translations of Mi wo Tsukushi, and collections of critiques such as Recent Foreign Literature, Literary Essays, and The Saint Poet Dante (all 1901), bringing new knowledge to the literary world. …

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…英･仏文学者，詩人，評論家。初期には柳村と号した。旧幕臣の子で東京築地の生れ。一高を経て東大英文科卒。東京高等師範学校教授，東大講師，京大教授を歴任。一高在学中，島崎藤村らの《文学界》同人となり，東大入学とともに《帝国文学》の創刊に参画，第1期の編集委員となり，同誌上にヨーロッパ各国の文芸思潮の紹介を連載し，評伝《耶蘇（ヤソ）》(1899)以下，訳文集《みをつくし》，評論集《最近海外文学》《文芸論集》《詩聖ダンテ》(以上1901)などを相ついで刊行，文壇に新知識をもたらした。…

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