Walter Clyde Curry (1887 - October 2, 1967) was an American academic, medievalist, and poet. He was a member of the Fugitives and the author of four books.
Walter Clyde Curry | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1887 |
| Died | October 2, 1967 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Education | Wofford College Stanford University |
| Occupation(s) | Academic, poet |
| Employer | Vanderbilt University |
| Spouse | Kathryn Worth |
| Parent(s) | William Collier Curry Martha Yeargin |
Early life
editWalter Clyde Curry was born in 1887 in Gray Court, South Carolina.[1][2] He graduated from Wofford College, and he earned a master's degree and PhD from Stanford University.[2]
Career
editCurry joined the English department at Vanderbilt University in 1915.[1] A poet, he became a member of the Fugitives under the penname of Marpha in the 1920s.[2] He taught at Peabody College from 1930 to 1941.[1] He was the chair of the English department at Vanderbilt University from 1941 to 1955.[2] On his retirements, his former students, including Cleanth Brooks, published a volume of essays about Curry's scholarship.[3]
Curry was a medievalist, and a member of the Medieval Academy of America.[1] He was also a member of the Modern Language Association.[1]
Personal life and death
editCurry married Kathryn Worth in 1927.[1] They had a daughter, who married Joseph Rainey.[1] He died on October 2, 1967, in Nashville,[1][2] at the age of 80.[4]
Selected works
edit- Curry, Walter Clyde (1916). The Middle English Ideal of Personal Beauty; As Found in the Metrical Romances, Chronicles, and Legends of the XIII, XIV, and XV Centuries. Baltimore, Maryland: J. H. Furst Company.
- Curry, Walter Clyde (1926). Chaucer and the Mediaeval Sciences. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Curry, Walter Clyde (1937). Shakespeare's Philosophical Patterns. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press.
- Curry, Walter Clyde (1958). Milton's Ontology, Cosmogony and Physics. Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press.
Further reading
edit- Essays in Honor of Walter Clyde Curry. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press. 1954. OCLC 28751623.
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h "Dr. Curry Dies, Ex-Professor". The Tennessean. October 3, 1967. pp. 1–2. Retrieved October 23, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e "Walter Clyde Curry". Poetry Foundation. p. 1. Retrieved October 23, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Siegel, Paul N. (Autumn 1956). "Reviewed Work: Essays in Honor of Walter Clyde Curry". Shakespeare Quarterly. 7 (4): 438–439. doi:10.2307/2866375. JSTOR 2866375.
- ^ "Dr. W. C. Curry". The Tennessean. October 5, 1967. p. 16. Retrieved October 23, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
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