Shairp

American  

[shairp, shahrp] / ʃɛərp, ʃɑrp /

noun

1. John Campbell Principal Shairp, 1819–85, English critic, poet, and educator.

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Example Sentences

Investors anticipated S&P’s action, said David Shairp, a global strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management in London.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 18, 2012

Two vols. of his letters, edited by William Hanna, D.D., with reminiscences by Dean Stanley and Principal Shairp, appeared in 1877.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

Footnote 6: This “undertone,” as Mr Shairp calls it.

From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George

"True, sir, as gospel," said Mrs. Shairp, touched by the ring of pain that came into the young man's voice as he spoke.

From Under False Pretences A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

Wordsworth," says John Campbell Shairp, "was the first who, both in theory and practice, shook off the trammels of the so-called poetic diction which had tyrannized over English poetry for more than a century.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James