Fausset, Hugh I'anson (1895–1965)

English critic. He published studies of Keats 1922, Tennyson 1923, Donne 1924, Coleridge 1926, Tolstoy 1928, Wordsworth 1933, and Walt Whitman 1942. He also wrote some poetry and edited Minor Poets of the Eighteenth Century 1930. Between the Tides 1943 and The Last Days 1945 are novels, while A Modern Prelude 1933 and Towards Fidelity 1952 are autobiographical.

He was born in Killington, Westmorland, the son of a clergyman, and educated at Sedbergh and Cambridge. He worked as a critic and reviewer.