Matthiessen, Francis Otto
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▪ American educator and critic
born Feb. 19, 1902, Pasadena, Calif., U.S.
died April 1, 1950, Boston
U.S. educator and critic who examined the lasting value of American classics as products of a certain author, society, and era.
Matthiessen received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1927, and, attracted by the school's commitment to correlating literature and culture, he taught there almost exclusively. His major book is
American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (1941), a book of literary criticism that covers the principal figures and works of 19th-century American literature.
Matthiessen became a leader in establishing the importance of T.S. Eliot with
The Achievement of T.S. Eliot: An Essay on the Nature of Poetry (1935); he also helped to revive interest in Henry James with such volumes as
Henry James: The Major Phase (1944). His distinguished writing won praise for its clarity and penetration.
While Matthiessen was on leave from Harvard, world problems, the absence of students, and difficulties with work so depressed him that he committed suicide at the age of 48.
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