[2] Suffered from esophageal cancer.
Father: (school superintendent, d. strangulated hernia)
Mother: (Christian Scientist, d. diabetes)
University: BA, Harvard University (1939)
University: PhD, Harvard University (1942)
Professor: History, Harvard University (1946-86)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1964 for John Keats
Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1978 for Samuel Johnson
Guggenheim Fellowship (twice)
Surgery 1923 (sympathectomy)
Author of books:
Negative Capability (1939, criticism)
The Stylistic Development of John Keats (1945, lectures)
From Classic to Romantic (1946, lectures)
The Achievement of Samuel Johnson (1955)
From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth-century England (1961)
John Keats (1963, biography)
Negative Capability: The Intuitive Approach in Keats (1965, criticism)
Coleridge (1968, biography)
The Burden of the Past and the English Poet (1970, criticism)
Samuel Johnson (1977, biography)
