Background
He was born at Chapel Hill, Texas.
He was born at Chapel Hill, Texas.
He received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1917, joining the Army in 1918, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1922.
In Europe for a year, he studied South. T. Coleridge, returning to a position at the University of Minnesota. Then at the State College of Washington, he held a Guggenheim Fellowship. From 1930 he was Chairman of the English Department at the University of Nebraska.