Hynes, Samuel

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HYNES, Samuel

HYNES, Samuel. American, b. 1924. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Professor Emeritus, Princeton University, New Jersey, since 1990 (Professor of English, 1976-90; Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, 1978-90). Member of Faculty, 1949-68, and Professor of English Literature, 1965-68, Swarthmore College; Professor of English, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1968-76. Publications: (ed) Further Speculations, by T.E. Hulme, 1955; The Pattern of Hardy's Poetry, 1961; (ed) English Literary Criticism: Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 1963; William Golding, 1964; (ed) The Author's Craft and Other Critical Writings of Arnold Bennett, 1968; The Edwardian Turn of Mind, 1968; (ed) Romance and Realism, 1970; Edwardian Occasions, 1972; The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930's, 1976; (ed) Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, Vol I, 1982, Vol II, 1984, Vol III, 1985, Vols IV & I, 1995; (ed) Thomas Hardy, 1984; Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator, 1988; A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture, 1990; Complete Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad, Vols I-III, 1992, Vol IV, 1993; The Soldiers Tale, 1997. Address: 130 Moore St., Princeton, NJ 08540-3359, U.S.A.