Summers, Joseph H(olmes) 1920-2003
SUMMERS, Joseph H(olmes) 1920-2003
OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born February 9, 1920, in Louisville, KY; died of cancer February 3, 2003, in Rochester, NY. Educator and author. Summers was a well-known literary scholar. An alumnus of Harvard University, he earned his Ph.D. there in 1950. During the 1950s he taught English at the University of Connecticut, and in the 1960s he was a faculty member at Washington University and then Michigan State University. He spent the remainder of his career at the University of Rochester, where he was a professor from 1969 to 1976, named Roswell S. Burrows Professor of English in 1976, and retired as professor emeritus in 1985. Summers was the author of several scholarly works, including George Herbert: His Religion and Art (1954), The Muse's Method: An Introduction to "Paradise Lost" (1962), and Dreams of Love and Power: On Shakespeare's Plays (1984), as well as the editor of other academic books.
OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:
books
Writers Directory, 18th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 2003.
periodicals
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), February 28, 2003, p. 2B.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 26, 2003, p. B4.