Princeton University - Bric A Brac Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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l Speaking about Professor Ciytuos Bykt-1k's renowned eritieal work on lletningyyay. I11'l1lir1g1t'r1y, The Il'riIr'r 115 Jrlisl, the Heralcl Trilutttzf said: this is that exeellent kind of rritieisnt which. tthether or not yye agree with all of its eonclusions. helps everywhere to Clarify' ottr reactions . . . Baker has done a tnajor joh of literary reevaluationf' Professor Baker's hook on Hemingway is perhaps his hest known work, hut this hook is just one of a series frotn the pen ol' this teacher, eritir. author and IJUCI. Presently Professor Baker is following up his first widely aeelaitnetl novel, .1 Frizfntl in l'rm'f'r, with a second, Thr' 1,1nnl of R1tn111elmt'. His sonnet t'On Getting Back to .Xirplane Spotting .Xtter len Years was included in Iiryl l'o1'm.S of 1956. Professor Baker is also completing an anthology' of Hemingway eriticistn entitled HI'II1fIIgIt'Ily' and his Critirs: ,-In lnternztlionztl .lnlltologyx On CZIIIIPLIS Professor Baker is known for short, concise, simply stated and easily understood lertures. Dr. linwncn IJt'nt.t-,y Hryni jouxsox, a former Rhodes Scholar, was elevated to his present rank of Associate Professor of linglish in l952, His primary' field of interest is Vietorian literature. In his under- graduate course, ulinglish Literature of the Last Hundred Years, Dr. .lohnson explores in his penetrating lectures the ratnifieations of Yietorian prose in rontetnporary society. In addition Dr. lohnson has written ntunerous articles for scholarly periodicals, and in 1952 rotnk pletetl Thr' .llien l'1.yio11 of l'i1'lori1n1 Poetry, a study' Of the works of Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold. .Xt present he is engaged in research for a t'ritit'1tl analysis of the lflth century linglish novel, which he hopes to eotnplete in the next three years. Rttzttutn M. Ltmwte, Associate Professor of ling- lislt, is printzlrily' interested in Anteriean poetry and the .Xtnetiean novel. Clhairtnan of the Special Pro- gram in the Hutnanities. Professor Ludwig is cur- rently working on Thr' .Sz'lef'ff'fI Imllety of Iforrl Afznlrlox lforfl. A twentieth eentury linglish novelist, Ford is hest known for his novel The fioorl Soldier. In IEI59 Mr. Ludwig puhlished the fourth volume of A l.iI1'mry' History of Ihr' United Staley covering all .yrnerieanv literature. In two courses in Atneriean literatttre, Main Currents of .-Xmeriean I.iterature and 'iytneriean Poetry, Professor Ludwig con- sistently delivers Z1 high quality of lecture. mingling deep literary penetration. riske anecdotes, and amusing quotations. , e , . , . . C.r1ku.n luynrs BliN'l'l.l'Y, Irolessor of langltsh, is a renowned editor of play anthologies and historian of the theater. At present Professor Bentley is writing the sixth and seventh yoltnnes of lrzroltenzt ami Caroline Stage. a work ronsidered to he the definitive study of the development of the British stage tluringg the seventeenth century. ln his underu graduate eourse, linglish drtuna, Professor Bentley devotes his attention not only to the ideas in the plays stttdted, hut also to the deyeloptneut of the stagts on yyhith they were originally acted. lliguiiied, yirile. and an entertaining lecturer, it is said that Professor Bentley is the only Professor in the l'niy'ersily who Can appease lashion-conseious under- graduates and yet wear a double hreasted suit to class. i1

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