Arthur Walton Litz as a professor of English Literature at Princeton University.
Litz graduated with an A.B. in English from Princeton University in 1951 after completing a senior thesis titled "Yoknapatawpha: A Study of William Faulkner's Moral Vision."[4] He then studied at Merton College, University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and received his D.Phil. in 1954.[5] He studied alongside and at one point lived with cultural theorist Stuart Hall, who described him as 'extraordinarily smart'.[6] After two years' service in the U.S. Army,[2] he became the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at Princeton in 1956, where he worked until his retirement in 1994.[2]
Litz married Marian Weller in 1958; they had four children.[5] He died of respiratory failure on June 4, 2014, aged 84, at University Medical Center of Princeton in Plainsboro, New Jersey. He is survived by his four children and six grandchildren.[2]
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^U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
^ abcdSaxon, Jamie. "A. Walton Litz, Princeton 'high modernist' scholar of literature, dies". Princeton University. The Trustees of Princeton University. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
walton, litz, arthur, walton, litz, october, 1929, nashville, tennessee, june, 2014, american, literary, historian, critic, served, professor, english, literature, princeton, university, from, 1956, 1993, author, editor, over, twenty, collections, literary, cr. Arthur Walton Litz Jr October 31 1929 in Nashville Tennessee 1 2 June 4 2014 3 was an American literary historian and critic who served as professor of English Literature at Princeton University from 1956 to 1993 He was the author or editor of over twenty collections of literary criticism including various editions of Ezra Pound James Joyce Wallace Stevens and T S Eliot Arthur Walton LitzArthur Walton Litz as a professor of English Literature at Princeton University Litz graduated with an A B in English from Princeton University in 1951 after completing a senior thesis titled Yoknapatawpha A Study of William Faulkner s Moral Vision 4 He then studied at Merton College University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and received his D Phil in 1954 5 He studied alongside and at one point lived with cultural theorist Stuart Hall who described him as extraordinarily smart 6 After two years service in the U S Army 2 he became the Holmes Professor of Belles Lettres at Princeton in 1956 where he worked until his retirement in 1994 2 Litz was also a longtime instructor at the Bread Loaf School of English He was named to the Eastman Visiting Professorship at Balliol College Oxford in 1989 In 1991 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society 7 Litz married Marian Weller in 1958 they had four children 5 He died of respiratory failure on June 4 2014 aged 84 at University Medical Center of Princeton in Plainsboro New Jersey He is survived by his four children and six grandchildren 2 References edit U S Public Records Index Vol 1 Provo UT Ancestry com Operations Inc 2010 a b c d Saxon Jamie A Walton Litz Princeton high modernist scholar of literature dies Princeton University The Trustees of Princeton University Retrieved 2 February 2016 Centraljersey com Litz Jr 1951 Yoknapatawpha A Study of William Faulkner s Moral Vision a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help a b Levens R G C ed 1964 Merton College Register 1900 1964 Oxford Basil Blackwell pp 425 426 Hall Stuart 2018 Familiar Strangers A Life Between Two Islands London Penguin Books p 159 ISBN 978 0 141 98475 9 APS Member History search amphilsoc org Retrieved 2022 04 07 External links editList of A Walton Litz s academic papers at Princeton University Library includes a photograph and brief career overview dated 2003 Yoknapatawpha A Study of William Faulkner s Moral Vision Princeton University 1951 senior thesis by Arthur Walton Litz Jr permanent dead link June 2006 newsletter from Balliol College Oxford listing A Walton Litz among the former George Eastman Professors at the College nbsp This biography of an American historian is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title A Walton Litz amp oldid 1086407987, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
