| 词条 | Harold William Thompson |
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Prof Harold William ("Tommy") Thompson FRSE FSA DLitt (1891–1964) was an American folklorist and historian. He was also a competent musician, specialising in playing the organ. LifeHe was born in Buffalo, New York in 1891. He graduated PhB from Hamilton University in 1912 then gained a doctorate from Harvard University in 1915.[1] He won a Guggenheim Fellowship allowing him further postgraduate study at Edinburgh University. Around 1920 he started lecturing in English at New York State University. In 1932 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Metzler, John Alexander Inglis, Robert Hannay and Charles Galton Darwin. Elected as an Ordinary Fellow rather than Foreign or Honorary Fellow, this indicates his physical presence in Edinburgh at that time.[2] From 1936 to 1939 he corresponded with Ezra Pound.[3] In 1940 he joined Cornell University as a Lecturer in English and became Professor of English in 1951. In 1944[4], with Louis C. Jones he founded the New York Folklore Society.[5] He retired in 1959, living his final years in Homer, New York. He died at Cortland Memorial Hospital in New York State on 21 February 1964. FamilyHis wife was Professor of English at New York State University.[6] Publications
References1. ^{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/22/archives/harold-thompson-of-cornell-dead-writer-on-us-folklore-72-was-on.html | title=HAROLD THOMPSON OF CORNELL DEAD; Writer on U.S. Folklore, 72, Was on Faculty 1940–59| newspaper=The New York Times| date=1964-02-22}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Harold William}}{{US-bio-stub}}2. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}} 3. ^{{Cite journal |jstor = 24726842|title = "dear Poet-General and Walloper": The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and Harold W. Thompson 1936–1939|journal = Paideuma|volume = 30|issue = 3|pages = 109–144|last1 = McWhirter|first1 = Cameron|year = 2001}} 4. ^{{Cite web | url=http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc22879.htm | title=New York Folklore Society Records, 1950-1998: New York State Library}} 5. ^New York State Folklife Reader, E Tucker & E. McHale 6. ^https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/22/archives/harold-thompson-of-cornell-dead-writer-on-us-folklore-72-was-on.html 9 : 1891 births|1964 deaths|People from Buffalo, New York|American folklorists|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|Hamilton College (New York) alumni|Cornell University faculty|University at Albany, SUNY faculty|Harvard University alumni |
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