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Sealts, Merton Miller was born on December 8, 1915 in Lima, Ohio, United States. Son of Merton Miller and Daisy (Hathaway) Sealts.
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Beyond the Classroom: Essays on American Authors
( Merton M. Sealts, Jr., a long-respected scholar and te...)
Merton M. Sealts, Jr., a long-respected scholar and teacher of Emerson and Melville, has written, "I shall never tire of such writers, nor absorb all that they have to teach." This new collection of Sealts's essays reflects his many years of classroom experience and ongoing scholarship since his retirement in 1982. Most of these essays were originally delivered as public lectures before diverse audiences beyond the classroom; others first appeared in study pamphlets and as chapters of books. These lucid essays, though varied in subject, have the commonality of an emphasis on teaching. The first essay, entitled "Emerson as Teacher," demonstrates how Emerson "provoked and inspired and educated his students--and his students' students." In the most recently written essays Sealts deals with four of Emerson's contemporaries--Whitman, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Melville--who responded variously to Emerson's teachings. A common thread among these four essays is each author's distinctive use of first-person narration. Teachers of literature at every level will greatly benefit from these highly readable discussions, which illustrate practical strategies for reading and teaching literary works. Included in the appendixes are questions for the study of Melville's Bartleby, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd, Sailor, which are also treated in individual essays.
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Emerson on the scholar, 1833-1837
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Merton M. Sealts' Melville as Lecturer 1957 Edition
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- Emerson on the Scholar (In this study of Ralph Waldo Emerson's conception of...)
- Billy Budd, Sailor, an Inside Narrative and Cliff Notes on Book
Merton Miller Sealts
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Merton Miller Sealts, American English language educator. Avocations: reading, classical music
M C. Fellow Ford Foundation, 1953-1954, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, 1962-1963, National Endowment for Humanities, 1975; American Council Learned Socs. grantee, 1970; recipient Tchg. award E. and R. Uhrig Foundation, 1965, Distinguished Alumni award College of Wooster, 1994.
Education
Bachelor, College of Wooster, 1937; Doctor of Letters (honorary), College of Wooster, 1974; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1942.
Career
Instructor in English, U. Missouri, Columbia, 1941-1942; instructor in English, Wellesley College, 1946-1948; assistant Professor of English, Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1948-1951; associate Professor of English, 1951-1958; Professor of English, Lawrence College/U., Appleton, Wisconsin, 1958-1965; Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1965-1975; Henry A. Pochmann Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1975-1982; Henry A. Pochmann Professor of English emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Madison, since 1982.
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Emerson on the Scholar
(In this study of Ralph Waldo Emerson's conception of the ...)
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Beyond the Classroom: Essays on American Authors
( Merton M. Sealts, Jr., a long-respected scholar and te...)
- Melville as Lecturer
- Emerson on the scholar, 1833-1837
- Billy Budd, Sailor, an Inside Narrative and Cliff Notes on Book
- Merton M. Sealts' Melville as Lecturer 1957 Edition
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Emerson on the Scholar
Membership
Private-major United States Army Air Corps, 1942-1946. Member Modern Language Association (Jau B. Hubbell medal American Literature section 1992), American Literature Association, Melville Society (president 1953), Ralph Ealdo Emerson Society (Distinguished Achievement award 1995), Thoreau Society.
Connections
Married Ruth Mackenzie, November 17,1942 (deceased 1995).
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Fellow Ford Foundation, 1953-1954, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, 1962-1963, National Endowment for Humanities, 1975. American Council Learned Socs. grantee, 1970. Recipient Tchg. award E. and R. Uhrig Foundation, 1965, Distinguished Alumni award College of Wooster, 1994.Fellow Ford Foundation, 1953-1954, J. S. Guggenheim Foundation, 1962-1963, National Endowment for Humanities, 1975. American Council Learned Socs. grantee, 1970. Recipient Tchg. award E. and R. Uhrig Foundation, 1965, Distinguished Alumni award College of Wooster, 1994.