biography
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Whitman, Cedric (Hubbell)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1916–79)
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| biography:
| Classicist and poet, born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He studied at Harvard (1943 BA; 1947 PhD), and then joined the faculty, serving as Eliot Professor of Greek Literature (1974–9) until his death. His Sophocles: A Study in Heroic Humanism (1951) won the Award of Merit of the American Philological Association (1952). Homer and the Heroic Tradition (1958) won the Christian Gauss Prize given by Phi Beta Kappa to the best book published that year, and was one of the post-war era's most influential books of literary criticism on Homer. |
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