George Stuart Gordon (1881–12 March 1942) was a British literary scholar.
Gordon was educated at the University of Glasgow and Oriel College, Oxford, where he received a First Class in Classical Moderations in 1904, Literae Humaniores in 1906, and the Stanhope Prize in 1905.
[4] Gordon famously argued that English Literature was capable of having a widespread and positive influence.
In his inaugural lecture for his Merton professorship, he argued that "England is sick, and … English literature must save it.
The Churches (as I understand) having failed, and social remedies being slow, English literature has now a triple function: still, I suppose, to delight and instruct us, but also, and above all, to save our souls and heal the State".