Background
Whitbread, Thomas Bacon was born on August 22, 1931 in Bronxville, New York, United States. Son of Thomas Francis and Caroline Nancy (Bacon) Whitbread.
( "The prevalence of a loose 'naturalness' in contemporar...)
"The prevalence of a loose 'naturalness' in contemporary poetry has made the ordinary reader a poor critic when he encounters meter, rhyme, and the like; he can't well distinguish the honest, functional use of such a means from a frilly and obtrusive formalism, and that's too bad. Still, it would take a very ordinary reader to find a culpable artificiality in Thomas Whitbred's poems. Their language has a supple openness, as of an amiable and intelligent man talking; both in its playfulness and in its gravity, it avoids the stagey; and it easily enlists any suitable form in the pursuit and sharpening of its point." - Richard Wilbur
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Whitbread, Thomas Bacon was born on August 22, 1931 in Bronxville, New York, United States. Son of Thomas Francis and Caroline Nancy (Bacon) Whitbread.
Bachelor of Arts, Amherst College, 1952; A.M., Harvard University, 1953; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1959.
Instructor English,, University Texas at Austin, 1959-1962; assistant professor, University Texas at Austin, 1962-1965; associate professor, University Texas at Austin, 1965-1971; professor, University Texas at Austin, since 1971. Visiting associate professor Rice U., 1969-1970. Member literature advisory panel Texas Commision on Arts and Humanities, 1972-1976.
( "The prevalence of a loose 'naturalness' in contemporar...)
Member American Association of University Professors, Texas Institute Letters (Poetry award 1965, 83), National, American amateur press associations, Phi Beta Kappa.