Background
Atkins, Stuart Pratt was born on March 8, 1914 in Baltimore. Son of (George) Robert and Huldah M. (Pratt) Atkins.
(This volume contains some twenty definitive essays on the...)
This volume contains some twenty definitive essays on the literary works of Goethe by STUART ATKINS, best known for his magisterial contributions to Goethe scholarship and his translation of I>Faust; although their importance has long been recognised, they have never before been collected in an accessible form. Their leitmotiv is the defence and clarification of the term 'classicism', seen as embracing style, motifs, modality and ethics, from antiquity to the Renaissance and later to the Romantics; they also seek to show how each variety of classicism is relevant to Goethe. The whole range of Goethe's work is covered, from his early letters to his last play, Die Wette, several studies of aspects of Faust are included. A complete bibliography of his scholarly publications completes the volume.
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German language and literature educator
Atkins, Stuart Pratt was born on March 8, 1914 in Baltimore. Son of (George) Robert and Huldah M. (Pratt) Atkins.
AB summa cum laude, Yale University, 1935; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1938; AM (honorary), Harvard University, 1948.
Instructor, Dartmouth College, 1938-1941;
Instructor, Harvard University, 1941-1943;
Instructor, Princeton University, 1946;
assistant professor German, Harvard University, 1946-1948;
associate professor, Harvard University, 1948-1956;
professor, Harvard University, 1956-1965;
department chairman Germanic languages and literature, Harvard University, 1952-1957, 60-65;
professor German, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1965-1984, 88, 90;
professor emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1984;
faculty research lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1973. Guggenheim fellow, 1955, 68. Visiting professor U. Goettingen, Germany, 1962;guest professor Ripon College, 1964.
Jasper-Jacob-Stahl lecturer Bowdoin College, 1972.
(This volume contains some twenty definitive essays on the...)
(An anthology of German literature)
Member Cambridge (Massachusetts) Auxiliary Police, 1942-1943. Served with United States Army Air Force, 1943-1946. Member Modern Language Association (president 1972), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Goethe Society North America, Heinrich Heine Gesellschaft, Faust Gesellschaft, North America Heine Society, Modern Humanities Research Association, National Association Scholars, American Association Teachers German (honorary, executive county 1966-1968), Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Goethe Gesellschaft, University of California Santa Barbara Emeriti Association (board directors 1989-1995), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Lillian E. Reed, June7, 1946. 1 son, Stuart Reed.