Maynard Mack
American Literary Critic and Academic
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Maynard Mack (October 27, 1909 – March 17, 2001) was an American literary critic and English professor.[1] Mack earned both his bachelor's degree (1932; Alpheus Henry Snow Prize) and Ph.D. (1936) at Yale. An expert on Shakespeare and Alexander Pope, Mack taught at Yale University for many years, starting as an instructor of English in 1936 and ending his career as Sterling Professor Emeritus of English.[2] He was remembered as an inspiring lecturer whose lectures on Shakespeare were described in one account as "unforgettable."[3]
DiedMarch 17, 2001 (aged 91)
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
OccupationLiterary critic, writer, professor
AlmamaterYale University (Ph.D)
Maynard Mack | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 27, 1909 |
| Died | March 17, 2001 (aged 91) New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Occupation | Literary critic, writer, professor |
| Alma mater | Yale University (Ph.D) |
| Spouse | Florence Brocklebank (m. 1934) |
| Children | 3 |
Works
Books
- King Lear in Our Time. Berkeley, University of California Press. 1965.
- Mack, Maynard (1969). The Garden and the City : retirement and politics in the later poetry of Pope, 1731-1743. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802052094.
- Mack, Maynard (1982). Collected in Himself : essays critical, biographical, and bibliographical on Pope and some of his contemporaries. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 9780874131826.
- Poetic Traditions of the English Renaissance (1982)
- The Last and Greatest Art (1984)
- Mack, Maynard (1985). Alexander Pope : a life. Norton. ISBN 9780393022087.
- Prose and Cons: Monologues on Several Occasions (1989)
- Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies. 1993.
- (as editor) The Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope (1939-1969) (12 vols.)