Kinsley edited David Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits (1954); wrote Scottish Poetry: A Critical Survey (1954); compiled The Poems of John Dryden, which appeared in 1958 in four volumes; and edited Squyer Meldrum by Lyndsay (1959), The Works of Virgil Translated by John Dryden (1961), The Poems and Fables of John Dryden (1962), Annals of the Parish by John Galt (1967), The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (3 vols., 1968), The Oxford Book of Ballads (1969), Anecdotes and Characters of My Own Time by Alexander Carlyle (1973), and The Poems of William Dunbar (1979).[3] He sometimes collaborated with his wife Helen, née Dawson, with whom he jointly authored Dryden: The Critical Heritage (1971). Between 1969 and 1977, he was editor of the Oxford English Novels and the Oxford English Memoirs and Travels series.[1] He gave the Gregynog Lecture at Aberystwyth in 1963 and the British Academy's Warton Lecture in 1974, and was awarded the DLitt degree by the University of Edinburgh in 1959. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1959) and of the British Academy (1971).[4] He died on 24 August 1984.[1]
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