Education
Harvard University; Yale University. University of Michigan.
Harvard University; Yale University. University of Michigan.
After studying at the University of Michigan (Bachelor of Arts 1921) and Harvard University, he spent 3 years at Oriel College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy by Yale University in 1927. He then became an Instructor in English at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving a promotion to Assistant Professor in 1928. His honours while at the University of California, Berkeley included a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1943 and honorary degrees from Laval University, the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago.
Bronson specialised in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Samuel Johnson, with his book Johnson on Shakespeare being published shortly after his death.
He died on March 14, 1986.