Modern Literary Criticism, 1900-1970

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Lawrence Lipking, A. Walton Litz
Atheneum, 1971 - Criticism - 554 pages

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Contents

Preface
4
T S ELIOT
63
A RICHARDS
123
Copyright

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Lawrence Lipking,A. Walton Litz
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Lawrence Lipking,A. Walton Litz
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About the author (1971)

Arthur Walton Litz, Jr. was born on October 31, 1929. He was an American literary historian and critic who served as professor of English Literature at Princeton University from 1956 to 1993. He is the author or editor of over twenty collections of literary criticism. Litz graduated from Princeton University in 1951 and received his Ph.D. from Oxford University while studying on a Rhodes Scholarship at Merton College in 1951-54. He became the Holmes Professor of English Literature at Princeton in 1956. He was named to the Eastman Visiting Professorship at Balliol College, Oxford in 1989. Bread Loaf professor from the early 1970s through the early 1990s and a literary historian and critic who served as professor of English literature at Princeton University from 1956 to 1993, Arthur Litz, Jr. died on June 4, 2014, at University Medical Center of Princeton in New Jersey.

Bibliographic information

TitleModern Literary Criticism, 1900-1970
EditorsLawrence Lipking, A. Walton Litz
Compiled byLawrence Lipking, A. Walton Litz
PublisherAtheneum, 1971
ISBN0689104197, 9780689104190
Length554 pages
  
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