Smith, Elton Edward

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SMITH, Elton Edward

SMITH, Elton Edward. American, b. 1915. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Professor of Victorian Literature, 1961-94, Distinguished Professor, 1994, University of South Florida, Tampa, Professor, British literature and Bible. Visiting Professor, University of Algiers, 1968-70, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, 1974-75, University of London, 1982, and University of Paris, 1983. Publications: The Two Voices: A Tennyson Study, 1964; (with E.M.G. Smith) William Godwin, 1965; Louis Mac- Neice, 1970; The Angry Young Men of the Thirties: Day Lewis, Spender, MacNeice, Auden, 1975; Charles Reade, 1977; Tennyson's Epic Drama: A Study of All the Plays, Major Dramatic Monologues, and Soliloquies, 1997; (ed. intro., and contrib.) The Haunted Mind: The Supernatural in Victorian Literature, 1999; My Son! My Son!, 1999. Address: Dept. of English, CPR 384, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, U.S.A.