Background
Hynes, Samuel was born on August 29, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Samuel Lynn and Margaret (Turner) Hynes.
(Hynes provides an overall view of Edwardian literature an...)
Hynes provides an overall view of Edwardian literature and its involvement with the pressing social issues of the times; then, he introduces the literary lions of the day, viewed in relation to the times and to each other. This includes such authors as George Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris, H.G.Wells, E.M.Forster. He analyzes the feud between V. Woolf and Arnold Bennett, the relationship between G.K.Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, and much more. 208 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. New York, Oxford University Press, 1972.
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(Samuel Hynes served as a consultant on "The War", directe...)
Samuel Hynes served as a consultant on "The War", directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and appears on camera in several episodes. "The War" is a seven-part, 14-hour documentary series that debuts on PBS on Sunday, September 23, 2007. Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for navy flight school in 1943. By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot, still not quite twenty-one, and had flown more than a hundred missions in the Pacific theater. In this eloquent narrative, by turns dramatic, funny, and elegiac, Hynes recalls those extraordinary years during which he came of age. he makes real the places—the training fields and the liberty towns and the Pacific islands, and the people—the other young pilots, the girls and the young wives, even the enemy pilots. He remembers friendship, and the excitement and tedium of war, the high exhilaration of flying, and the dying. More than a tale of combat, Flight of Passage is a story of one boy's growth to manhood in the turbulent, testing world of war in the air.
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(The "Edwardian Turn of Mind" brilliantly evokes the cultu...)
The "Edwardian Turn of Mind" brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age. The years between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War witnessed a turbulent and dramatic struggle between the old and the new. Samuel Hynes considers the principal areas of conflict - politics, science, the arts and the relations between men and women - and fills them with a wide-ranging cast of characters: Tories, Liberals and Socialists, artists and reformers, psychoanalysts and psychic researchers, sexologists, suffragettes and censors. His book is a portrait of a tumultuous time - out of which contemporary England was made.
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(With stunning eloquence and breathtaking clarity, Samuel ...)
With stunning eloquence and breathtaking clarity, Samuel Hynes recaptures the extraordinary years of the World War II: the tough flight training over makeshift airfields, the rich camaraderie nurtured in cockpits and gin mills, the bawdy romantic escapades, and the utter madness of war.
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For Americans who grew up in the 1930s, the phrase "before the war" calls up a distant time as remote from the way we live now as some foreign country. Those years of the Great Depression were lean ones for most Americans; jobs were scarce and nobody had any money. But all was not struggle and hardship; it was also a time of innocence, kindness, and generosity. It is this special time that Samuel Hynes, a distinguished scholar and wartime marine pilot, captures in this lyrical memoir of his midwestern boyhood. Born in 1924, Sam Hynes grew up in cities and towns and on farms around the country, following his father to wherever there was work, and eventually to Minneapolis. Though Hynes's family lived through hard times, he remembers his early years not as a time of pinched deprivation but as a golden stretch of opportunities and discoveries. Looking back with a clear-eyed, unsentimental gaze, Hynes describes the rough-and-tumble games in back alleys and a long hot summer on a farm, the temptations of sex, stealing, and drinking, and the wonder of falling in love for the first time. Here, too, are deeply etched portraits of Hynes's widowed father and of the feisty widow he brought home to be stepmother to his sons. Hynes's new memoir recaptures what came before the war he fought in: his dreams, his adventures, his sins and triumphs. Moving, written with great clarity and humor, The Growing Seasons is the story of a truly American boyhood.
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(Sam Hynes was a young Marine bomber pilot in World War II...)
Sam Hynes was a young Marine bomber pilot in World War II. He flew more than 100 missions against the Japanese. He was just 18 when he left home to learn to fly and 21 at the war's end. In this memoir, he remembers the sensations he experienced in his rites of passage from untrained cadet to war-weary aviator, from innocence to manhood. He presents portraits of his fellow aviators, of the wonder of flying and of the madness of war. Samuel Hynes is author of "The Auden Generation" and "Edwardian Occasions" and editor of the three volume "Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy".
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(This is a study of a literary generation writing in a per...)
This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end approaching gave a special quality to the Thirties. The public world pressed insistently on the private world. For those who came of literary age - Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender, Graham Greene, Isherwood and Orwell among them - writing became a form of action. In the process a generation discovered itself and found its own expression.
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author English language educator
Hynes, Samuel was born on August 29, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Samuel Lynn and Margaret (Turner) Hynes.
Bachelor, University of Minnesota, 1947; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1948; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1956.
Member faculty, Swarthmore College, 1949-1968; Professor of English literature, Swarthmore College, 1965-1968; Professor of English, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1968-1976; Professor of English, Princeton University, 1976-1990; Woodrow Wilson professor literature, Princeton University, 1978-1990; Woodrow Wilson professor literature emeritus, Princeton University, since 1990.
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(Hynes provides an overall view of Edwardian literature an...)
(For Americans who grew up in the 1930s, the phrase "befor...)
(Samuel Hynes served as a consultant on "The War", directe...)
(This is a study of a literary generation writing in a per...)
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Served to major United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1943-1946, 52-53. Fellow Royal Society Literature. Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Elizabeth Igleheart, July 28, 1944 (deceased December 28, 2008). Children: Miranda, Joanna.