Walter Clyde Curry

Walter Clyde Curry (1887 - October 2, 1967) was an American academic, medievalist, and poet. He was a member of the Fugitives and the author of four books.

Walter Clyde Curry
Born1887
Gray Court, South Carolina, U.S.
DiedOctober 2, 1967
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
EducationWofford College
Stanford University
OccupationAcademic, poet
EmployerVanderbilt University
Spouse(s)Kathryn Worth
Parent(s)William Collier Curry
Martha Yeargin

Early life

Walter Clyde Curry was born in 1887 in Gray Court, South Carolina.[1][2] He graduated from Wofford College, and he earned a master's degree and PhD from Stanford University.[2]

Career

Curry joined the English department at Vanderbilt University in 1915.[1] A poet, he became a member of the Fugitives under the penname of Marpha in the 1920s.[2] He taught at Peabody College from 1930 to 1941.[1] He was the chair of the English department at Vanderbilt University from 1941 to 1955.[2] On his retirements, his former students, including Cleanth Brooks, published a volume of essays about Curry's scholarship.[3]

Curry was a medievalist, and a member of the Medieval Academy of America.[1] He was also a member of the Modern Language Association.[1]

Personal life and death

Curry married Kathryn Worth in 1927.[1] They had a daughter, who married Joseph Rainey.[1] He died on October 2, 1967 in Nashville,[1][2] at the age of 80.[4]

Selected works
  • Curry, Walter Clyde (1916). The Middle English Ideal of Personal Beauty; As Found in the Metrical Romances, Chronicles, and Legends of the XIII, XIV, and XV Centuries. Baltimore, Maryland: J. H. Furst Company.
  • Curry, Walter Clyde (1926). Chaucer and the Mediaeval Sciences. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Curry, Walter Clyde (1937). Shakespeare's Philosophical Patterns. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press.
  • Curry, Walter Clyde (1958). Milton's Ontology, Cosmogony and Physics. Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press.

Further reading

References
  1. "Dr. Curry Dies, Ex-Professor". The Tennessean. October 3, 1967. pp. 1–2. Retrieved October 23, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "Walter Clyde Curry". Poetry Foundation. p. 1. Retrieved October 23, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. Siegel, Paul N. (Autumn 1956). "Reviewed Work: Essays in Honor of Walter Clyde Curry". Shakespeare Quarterly. 7 (4): 438–439. doi:10.2307/2866375. JSTOR 2866375.
  4. "Dr. W. C. Curry". The Tennessean. October 5, 1967. p. 16. Retrieved October 23, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.


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