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Parkinson, Thomas Francis was born on February 24, 1920 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Technology F. and Catherine (Green) Parkinson.
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Thomas F. Parkinson (1920-1992) Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, was a poet in his own right; an expert on the poetry of W. B. Yeats;1 and one of the first academic authorities to write about the Beat poets and novelists of San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s. A deeply thoughtful man of great integrity, he was a quiet political activist for much of his life, and survived a murder attempt in 1961 by a deranged former student who sought to "get someone who was associated with Communism." Though Parkinson survived being shot in the face (and bore the scars of the assault for the rest of his life), the teaching assistant who was with him at the time was killed. Thomas Parkinson died of an apparent heart attack in 1992 after a long illness. During this period, Parkinson's academic career began to flourish as he published two critical works: W. B. Yeats, Self-Critic (1961) and W. B. Yeats, The Later Poetry (1964), which established him as an authority on the Anglo-Irish poet. He was also one of the first academic critics to appreciate and promote the works of Beat writers like Allen Ginsberg, but also of John Montague (poet), and Robert Duncan. He published his Casebook on the Beats in 1961.1 He became part of the circle of writers, including Lawrence Ferlinghetti, that helped evolve the San Francisco literary culture of the 1960s, and served as a unique voice as both critic and fellow-poet. Later volumes on Hart Crane and other poets won him lasting acclaim. His last book,Poets, Poems, Movements (1987), is an award-winning collection of essays.
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Parkinson, Thomas Francis was born on February 24, 1920 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Technology F. and Catherine (Green) Parkinson.
Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude, University of California at Berkeley, 1945; Master of Arts, University of California at Berkeley, 1946; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley, 1948.
Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley, 1948-1953; associate professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1953-1960; Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley, 1960-1991; special assistant to chancellor, University of California, Berkeley, 1979-1981; visiting assistant professor, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, 1951-1952; Fulbright professor, U. Bordeaux, France, 1953-1954; Fulbright professor, U. Frankfurt, Germany, 1954; Fulbright professor, Nice and Grenoble, France, 1965-1966; visiting professor, U. Washington, Seattle, 1968; visiting lecturer, Oxford (England) University, 1969; visiting professor, U. York (England), 1970. Member literature panel National Endowment for Arts, 1971-1974. Visiting senior research fellow St. John's College, University of Oxford, 1984-1985.
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Served with United States Army Air Force, 1943. Member American Association of University Professors (president Berkeley chapter 1962-1963), Modern Language Association.
Married Ariel Reynolds, December 23, 1948. Children: Katherine, Chrysa.