Background
Fergusson, Francis was born on February 21, 1904 in Albuquerque. Son of Harvey Butler and Clara Mary (Huning) Fergusson.
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critic physicist teacher theorist
Fergusson, Francis was born on February 21, 1904 in Albuquerque. Son of Harvey Butler and Clara Mary (Huning) Fergusson.
Student, Harvard, 1921-1923; Bachelor of Arts (Rhodes scholar), University of Oxford, 1926.
His readable, illuminating edition of Aristotle"s Poetics (Hill and Wang, 1961), with Fergusson"s introduction and notes, remains in print. His other works include, which includes his translations of many passages. In The Rarer Action (Rutgers, 1970), a volume in tribute to Francis Fergusson, the critic Allen Tate wrote: "The Idea of a Theater" is a work comparable in range and depth with Eric Auerbach"s "Mimesis".
There is no other work by an American critic of which this can be said." Born in New Mexico, he attended Harvard University, where he befriended future physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
He then received a Rhodes Scholarship and studied briefly at Oxford University before traveling to France where he befriended Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company. Returning to New York, he took acting classes with the Polish director Richard Boleslavski and wrote drama criticism for the Herald Tribune.
In the early 1930s he founded the drama division of the then new Bennington College in southwestern Vermont. After nearly a decade at Bennington, he moved on to teach at the University of Indiana and then at Rutgers University, where he taught comparative literature.
Among his students were poet Robert Pinsky and fiction writer Alan Cheuse.
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Member National Institute Arts and Letters. M C.
Married Marion Crowne, January 16, 1931 (deceased 1959). Children– Harvey, Honora. Married Peggy Kaiser, July 26, 1962.
