George Thaddeus Wright

Background

Wright, George Thaddeus was born on December 17, 1925 in Staten Island, New York, United States. Son of George Thaddeus and Tekla Alida (Anderson) Wright.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1946; Master of Arts, Columbia, 1947; student, University Geneva, Switzerland, 1947-1948; Doctor of Philosophy (Doctor Benjamin P. Wall memorial fellow 1955-1956), University of California at Berkeley, 1957.

Career

Lecturer English, University of California at Berkeley, 1956-1957; instructor, then assistant professor, U. Kentucky, 1957-1960; assistant professor, San Francisco State College, 1960-1961; associate professor, U. Tennessee, 1961-1968; Professor of English, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1968-1989; Regents' professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1989-1993; professor emeritus, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, since 1993; department chairman English, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1974-1977. Fulbright lecturer American literature U. d'Aix Marseille, France, 1964-1966, U. Thessaloniki, Greece, 1977-1978.

Achievements

• George Thaddeus Wright has been listed as a noteworthy Humanities educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Hearing The Measures: Shakespearean And Other Inflections

    ( An eminent scholar's guide to hearing poets' work When...)

  • The poet in the poem;: The personae of Eliot, Yeats, and Pound

    (The Personae of Eliot, Yeats, and Pound)

  • Seven American Literary Stylists from Poe to Mailer: An Introducation
  • Aimless life: Poems, 1961-1995
  • The Poet in the Poem: The Personae of Eliot, Yeats, and Pound. Subtitle:(Perspectives in Criticism 4)
  • The Poet in the Poem: The Personae of Eliot, Yeats, and Pound.
  • The Poet in the Poem; The Personae of Eliot, Yeats, and Pound (vol 4 of the Perspectives in Criticism series

Membership

Served with United States Army, 1944-1946. Member Shakespeare Association American, Modern Language Association (William Riley Parker prize 1974, 81), Thomas Stearns Eliot Society (Eliot memorial lecturer 2007), Phi Kappa Phi.

Connections

Married Jerry Honeywell, April 28, 1955 (deceased 2006).

Father:

George Thaddeus Wright

Mother:

Tekla Alida (Anderson) Wright

Spouse:

Jerry Honeywell