F. O. Matthiessen
American academic (1902–1950)
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Francis Otto Matthiessen (February 19, 1902 – April 1, 1950) was an American educator, scholar, and literary critic, influential in the fields of American literature and American studies. His best known work, American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman, celebrated the achievements of several 19th-century American authors and had a profound impact on a generation of scholars. It also established American Renaissance as the common term to refer to American literature of the mid-19th century.