Ricardo Beckwith Quintana

Background

Quintana, Ricardo Beckwith was born on October 6, 1898 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of Manuel Perez and Harriet Meade (Beckwith) Quintana.

Education

AB, Harvard, 1920; A.M., Harvard, 1921. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1927.

Career

Instructor English Washington University, 1921-1924. Instructor English, tutor division modern languages Harvard, 1924-1926. Austin resident fellow Harvard (Graduate School), 1926-1927.

Assistant professor English University Wisconsin, 1927-1930, associate professor, 1930-1936, professor, 1936-1969, professor emeritus, since 1969. Research fellow Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1937-1938, 1969. Distinguished visiting professor English University Delaware, 1963, 1970.

Visiting professor Florida State University, 1970-1971. Visiting member Wisconsin Institute Research in Humanities, 1963-1964.

Achievements

• Ricardo Beckwith Quintana has been listed as a noteworthy English educator emeritus by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Eighteenth-Century Plays

    (Edited, with an Introduction, by Ricardo Quintana)

  • Oliver Goldsmith : A Georgian Study : Masters of World Literature
  • Swift: An Introduction
  • The mind and art of Jonathan Swift
  • Swift - An Introduction
  • English Poetry of the Mid and Late Eighteenth Century, an Historical Anthology
  • Oliver Goldsmith: A Georgian Study (Masters of World Literature series)

Membership

Served as Second lieutenant, infantry United States Army, 1918. Member Modern Language Association American.

Connections

Married Janet Garland MacQueary, April 7, 1928. 1 son, Ricardo Beckwith.

Father:

Manuel Perez Quintana

Mother:

Harriet Meade (Beckwith) Quintana

Spouse:

Janet Garland MacQueary