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Carl R. Woodring

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Born: August 28 1919

Died: 1111 09 20092009

Carl Ray Woodring was a professor of English literature at Wisconsin and Columbia, an author, an acclaimed essayist and a distinguished international literary critic.

He became the George Edward Woodberry Professor of Literature at Columbia in 1976, and retained the chair as professor of literature emeritus when he retired in 1988. During his career at Columbia he served on the Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities as Chairman and Co-Chairman. Carl's scholarly awards are numerous, ranging from the Bowdoin prize at Harvard , a Ford Foundation grant for 1955-56 and a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1958-59. In 1986 he received Rice University's Distinguished Alumnus award. Carl wrote numerous articles and books including "Politics in the Poetry of Coleridge" , "Wordsworth" , and "Nature into Art: Cultural Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Britain" , He edited the two volumes of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Table Talk and co-edited "The Columbia History of British Poetry" . His 1970 book on William Wordsworth, "Politics in English Romantic Poetry," won the Phi Beta Kappa award. His "Literature: an Endangered Profession" won the Texas Writers League Violet Crown Award.

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Carl R. Woodring

Carl R. Woodring

Books from Carl R. Woodring

The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Prose of the Romantic Period

The Columbia History of British Poetry

Nature Into Art: Cultural Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Britain

The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 14: Complete 2-Volume Set

Literature: An Embattled Profession

Politics In English Romantic Poetry

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