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Litz, Arthur Walton was born on October 31, 1929 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Arthur Walton and Lucile (Courtney) Litz.
(Arthur Walton Litz, Jr. is an American literary historian...)
Arthur Walton Litz, Jr. is 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. Born in 1929, Litz graduated from Princeton University in 1951 and received his Ph.D. from Oxford University while studying on a Rhodes Scholarship, 1951-54. He became the Holmes Professor of English Literature at Princeton, in 1956. He was named to the George Eastman Visiting Professorship at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1989. Contents: The Poet of' Harmonium.' - The Place of Poetry. - Appendix A: The Text of 'Harmonium.' - Appendix B: Poems Not Collected in 'Harmonium.' - Appendix C: Revisions of 'Owl's Clover.' Includes bibliographical notes. Includes two indexes: Works by Wallace Stevens and General Index.
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Litz, Arthur Walton was born on October 31, 1929 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Arthur Walton and Lucile (Courtney) Litz.
AB, Princeton University, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy (Rhodes scholar), Oxford (England) University, 1954.
Instructor, Princeton University, 1956-1958; lecturer, Columbia University, 1957-1958; member of faculty, Princeton University, since 1958; Professor of English literature, Princeton University, since 1968; chairman English department, Princeton University, 1974-1981. Visiting professor Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore College, BreadLoaf School of English, Temple University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania. Member editorial board Princeton University Press, 1967-1971.
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With Army of the United States, 1954-1956. Member American Philosophical Society.
Married Marian Ann Weiler, Feb.2, 1958 (divorced 1993). Children: Katharine, Andrew, Victoria, Emily.