About Donald J. Childs Donald J. Childs is a professor of English literature at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of T.S. Eliot: Mystic, Son and Lover. Books by Donald J. Childs The Birth of New Criticism Conflict and Conciliation in the Early Work of William Empson, I.A. Richards, Robert Graves, and Laura Riding by (author) Donald J. Childs