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Matthiessen, F(rancis) O(tto)

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Matthiessen, F[rancis] O[tto] (1902–50),graduated from Yale, was a Rhodes Scholar, and received a Ph.D. from Harvard before becoming an instructor at Yale (1927–29) and professor at Harvard (1929–50). An influential teacher, he was liberal in politics, deeply religious, and incisive in literary judgments. His books include Sarah Orne Jewett (1929); The Achievement of T.S. Eliot (1935, revised 1947); American Renaissance (1941), analyzing “art and expression in the age of Emerson and Whitman”; Henry James: The Major Phase (1944); The James Family (1947); The Notebooks of Henry James (1947), with Kenneth Murdock; From the Heart of Europe (1948); The Oxford Book of American Verse (1950); and Theodore Dreiser (1951).

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F. O. Matthiessen

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F. O. Matthiessen (Francis Otto Matthiessen) , 1902–50, American critic, b. Pasadena, Calif., grad. Yale Univ., 1923, B.Litt., Oxford, 1925, Ph.D., Harvard, 1927. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, he was professor of history and literature at Harvard (1929–50). As a critic Matthiessen was interested in the history of American literature and the relationship of literature to society. He was a devout Christian and a committed socialist. His works include Sarah Orne Jewett (1929), American Renaissance (1941), Henry James: The Major Phase (1944), and Theodore Dreiser (1951). Some recent scholars argue that Matthieseen's fears of the exposure of his left-wing activities and his homosexuality contributed to his suicide.

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