Hyatt H. Wagoner

Hyatt Howe Wagoner (born November 19, 1913 in Pleasant Valley , New York , † October 13, 1988 in Hanover , New Hampshire ) was an American literary scholar who is particularly prominent with work on Nathaniel Hawthorne .

biography

Wagoner studied at Middlebury College (BA 1935) and the University of Chicago (MA 1936). In 1942 he received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University. From 1939 to 1942 he first taught at the University of Omaha . From 1942 to 1956 he was Professor of English Literature at the University of Kansas City . In 1956 he followed a call from Brown University . From 1960 to 1970 he headed the “American Civilization” department (a forerunner of American Studies , which was only slowly establishing itself as an independent discipline at that time). In 1979 he retired.

Works

• The Heel of Elohim: Science and Values ​​in Modern American Poetry . University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 1950.
• Hawthorne: A Critical Study . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1955. Reprint 1963.
• William Faulkner: From Jefferson to the World . University of Kentucky Press, Lexington 1959.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1962. (= University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers 23)
• American Poets: From the Puritans to the Present . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1968.
• Emerson as Poet . Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1974. ISBN 0-691-06269-2
• The Presence of Hawthorne . Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge 1979. ISBN 0-8071-0576-7
• American Visionary Poetry . Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge 1982. ISBN 0-8071-1051-5

Web links

• Wagoner, Hyatt H. - Entry in the Encyclopedia Brunoniana