Margaret Dickie

Background

Margaret Dickie was born on September 13, 1935, in Bennington, Vermont, United States. She is the daughter of Henry Dickie, an athletic director, and Dorothy (Sweet) Dickie, a librarian.

Education

Dickie graduated from the Middlebury College as Bachelor of Arts in 1956. In 1965 she received doctor's degree from the Brown University.

Career

Dickie worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a long period of time, beginning as an assistant professor, she became a professor of English, staying at that position for 20 years from 1967. She was a department head from 1983 till 1987.

At the University of Georgia, Dickie served as a distinguished professor, since 1987.

Achievements

• Dickie received Distinguished Alumni Award from the Middlebury College.

Works

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  • Stein, Bishop, and Rich: Lyrics of Love, War, and Place

    (In an insightful and provocative juxtaposition, Margaret ...)

    1997
  • Lyric Contingencies: Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens

    (In Lyric Contingencies Margaret Dickie brings Wallace Ste...)

    1991
  • On the Modernist Long Poem 1986
  • Hart Crane: the patterns of his poetry 1975
  • Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems 1979

Membership

Dickie was a member of a board of trustees of the University of Georgia Foundation.

She is a member of the Modern Language Association of America, the American Studies Association and the Athens Country Club.

Interests

• Sport & Clubs

  tennis

Connections

Dickie married Benjamin Uroff on February 1961. They divorced in April 1978. Margaret has 2 children - Elizabeth Uroff Schrak and Catharine Uroff Brill.

Father:

Henry Dickie

Mother:

Dorothy (Sweet) Dickie

child:

Elizabeth Uroff Schrak

child:

Catharine Uroff Brill

husband:

Benjamin Uroff