Maynard Mack
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| Maynard Mack | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 27, 1909 New Haven, Connecticut |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Hillsdale, Michigan |
| Occupation | Literary critic, writer, professor |
| Spouse | Florence Brocklebank (m. 1934; 2 children) |
Maynard Mack (27 October 1909 – 17 March 2001) was an American literary critic and English professor.[1] Mack earned both his bachelor's degree (1932) and Ph.D. (1936) at Yale. An expert on Shakespeare and Alexander Pope, Mack taught at Yale University for many years, starting as an instructor of English in 1936 and ending his career as Sterling Professor Emeritus of English.[2] He was remembered as an inspiring lecturer whose lectures on Shakespeare were described in one account as "unforgettable."[3]
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Works
Books
- King Lear in Our Time (1965)
- The Garden and the City (1969)
- Collected in Himself (1982)
- Poetic Traditions of the English Renaissance (1982)
- The Last and Greatest Art (1984)
- Alexander Pope (1985)
- Prose and Cons: Monologues on Several Occasions (1989)
- Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies (1993).
- (as editor) The Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope (1939-1969) (12 vols.)
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