Gwynn, Stephen Lucius (1864–1950)

Irish poet and critic. Gwynn was born in Dublin and educated at St Columba's College, Rathfarnham, and Brasenose College, Oxford. Among his critical works are The Masters of English Literature (1904) and lives or studies of Alfred Tennyson (published 1899), Thomas Moore (1905), Walter Scott (1930), Horace Walpole (1932), Jonathan Swift (1933), and Oliver Goldsmith (1935). His Collected Poems appeared in 1923.

After graduating from Oxford, Gwynn taught classics for ten years and then became a freelance writer in London. He sat in Westminster as MP for Galway City 1906–18 and during World War I he received the French Legion of Honour.