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词条 Monroe K. Spears
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  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Personal life, death and legacy

  4. Works

  5. References

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Monroe K. Spears (1916 - May 23, 1998) was an American university professor and literary critic. He was the editor of the Sewanee Review from 1952 to 1961, and the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English at Rice University from 1964 to 1986. He was the author of several books about American and British poetry.

Early life

Spears was born in 1916 in Darlington, South Carolina. He graduated from the University of South Carolina, where he earned a bachelor's degree, and he earned a master's degree followed by a PhD from Princeton University.[1]

Career

Spears began his career as an English professor at the University of Wisconsin, followed by Vanderbilt University.[2] He joined the faculty at The University of the South, where he was the editor of the Sewanee Review from 1952 to 1961.[2] He was the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English at Rice University from 1964 to 1986.[2]

Spears was the author of several books about American and British poetry and poets, including W. H. Auden and Matthew Prior. He was also a contributor to The New York Review of Books. He was a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.[2]

Personal life, death and legacy

Spears lived in Sewanee, Tennessee with his wife, Betty. He died on May 23, 1998 in Winchester, Tennessee.[2][3] He is the namesake of the annual Monroe K. Spears Award at Rice University.[4]

Works

  • {{cite book |last1=Spears |first1=Monroe K. |title=The Poetry of W. H. Auden: The Disenchanted Island |date=1968 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York|oclc=907485381}}
  • {{cite book |editor-last1=Spears |editor-first1=Monroe K. |editor-last2=Wright |editor-first2=H. Bunker |title=The Literary Works of Matthew Prior |date=1971 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford, U.K.|oclc=977747024}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Spears |first1=Monroe K. |title=Dionysus and The City: Modernism in Twentieth-Century Poetry |date=1971 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York|oclc=718660046}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Spears |first1=Monroe K. |title=American Ambitions: Selected Essays on Literary and Cultural Themes |date=1987 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore, Maryland |isbn=9780801834141|oclc=991934125}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Spears |first1=Monroe K. |title=One Writer's Reality |date=1996 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |location=Columbia, Missouri|oclc=605348751}}

References

1. ^{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Matthew L. |title=Spears, Monroe K. |url=http://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/spears-monroe-k/ |website=South Carolina Encyclopedia |accessdate=July 15, 2018}}
2. ^{{cite news |title=Monroe K. Spears, Literary Critic, 82 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/01/arts/monroe-k-spears-literary-critic-82.html |accessdate=July 15, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=June 1, 1998}}
3. ^{{cite journal |last1=Prunty |first1=Wyatt |authorlink= Wyatt Prunty |title=In Memoriam Monroe K. Spears |journal=The Sewanee Review |date=Summer 1998 |volume=106 |issue=3 |pages=533–534 |jstor=27548561 }}
4. ^{{cite web |title=Monroe K. Spears Award |url=https://sel.rice.edu/awards/spears-award |website=Rice University |accessdate=July 15, 2018}}
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14 : 1916 births|1998 deaths|People from Darlington, South Carolina|University of South Carolina alumni|Princeton University alumni|University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty|Vanderbilt University faculty|Sewanee: The University of the South faculty|Rice University faculty|American male poets|American magazine editors|American literary critics|American male non-fiction writers|Guggenheim Fellows

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