Walter Clyde Curry

Walter Clyde Curry (1887 - October 2, 1967) was an American academic, medievalist, and poet. He was a member of the Fugitives and the author of four books.

Walter Clyde Curry was born in 1887 in Gray Court, South Carolina.^[1][2] He graduated from Wofford College, and he earned a master's degree and PhD from Stanford University.^[2]

Curry joined the English department at Vanderbilt University in 1915.^[1] A poet, he became a member of the Fugitives under the penname of Marpha in the 1920s.^[2] He taught at Peabody College from 1930 to 1941.^[1] He was the chair of the English department at Vanderbilt University from 1941 to 1955.^[2] On his retirements, his former students, including Cleanth Brooks, published a volume of essays about Curry's scholarship.^[3]

Curry was a medievalist, and a member of the Medieval Academy of America.^[1] He was also a member of the Modern Language Association.^[1]

Curry married Kathryn Worth in 1927.^[1] They had a daughter, who married Joseph Rainey.^[1] He died on October 2, 1967, in Nashville,^[1][2] at the age of 80.^[4]

• Curry, Walter Clyde (1916). The Middle English Ideal of Personal Beauty; As Found in the Metrical Romances, Chronicles, and Legends of the XIII, XIV, and XV Centuries. Baltimore, Maryland: J. H. Furst Company.
• Curry, Walter Clyde (1926). Chaucer and the Mediaeval Sciences. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Curry, Walter Clyde (1937). Shakespeare's Philosophical Patterns. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press.
• Curry, Walter Clyde (1958). Milton's Ontology, Cosmogony and Physics. Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press.

• Essays in Honor of Walter Clyde Curry. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press. 1954. OCLC 28751623.

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