William Wallace Robson FRSE FRSA (20 June 1923 – 31 July 1993) was a British literary critic and scholar.
He was born in Plymouth on 20 June 1923 the son of Kathleen Ryan and her husband, William Robson, a barrister.
In 1946 he began lecturing in English literature, and in 1948 was elected a Fellow and gained an MA.
In the early 1950s he founded the Oxford journal Essays in Criticism with F. W. Bateson.
His proposers were Norman Jeffares, Donald Low, Archie Turnbull, and John McIntyre.