Wright, George Thaddeus

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WRIGHT, George Thaddeus

WRIGHT, George Thaddeus. American, b. 1925. Genres: Poetry, Literary criticism and history. Career: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Emeritus Professor, 1993- (Professor of English, 1968-89; Chairman, 1974- 77; Regents' Professor, 1989-93). Instructor, and Assistant Professor of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1957-60; Assistant Professor of English, San Francisco State College, 1960-61; Associate Professor of English, University of Tennessee, 1961-68; Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature, Universite d'Aix-Marseille, 1964-66; University of Thessaloniki, 1977-78. Publications: The Poet in the Poem, 1960; W.H. Auden, 1969, 1981; (ed.) Seven American Literary Stylists from Poe to Mailer: An Introduction, 1973; Shakespeare's Metrical Art, 1988; Aimless Life: Poems, 1961-1995, 1999; Heaving the Measures, 2002. Address: 2617 W Crown King Dr., Tucson, AZ 85741, U.S.A.

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