Harris Fletcher
Encyclopedia
Harris Francis Fletcher was an American academic, author, and a leading authority on the work of John Milton
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He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan
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On July 8, 1915, he married Mary Ellen Davis in Ypsilanti, Michigan
. Mary Ellen Davis died of influenza in the flu pandemic October 20, 1918.
On 22 June, 1922, he married Dorothy Bacon in Coldwater, Michigan
.
Fletcher received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1925.
Fletcher was Professor of English at the University of Illinois from 1926-1962, and
Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 1931-1938.
Fletcher played a major role in the establishment of the university's Rare Book and Special Collections Library, which now include the largest collection of the works of the poet John Milton in the United States.
He died in Champaign, Illinois in 1979.
John Milton
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...
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He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan
Ypsilanti, Michigan
Ypsilanti is a city in Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 22,362. The city is bounded to the north by the Charter Township of Superior and on the west, south, and east by the Charter Township of Ypsilanti...
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On July 8, 1915, he married Mary Ellen Davis in Ypsilanti, Michigan
Ypsilanti, Michigan
Ypsilanti is a city in Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 22,362. The city is bounded to the north by the Charter Township of Superior and on the west, south, and east by the Charter Township of Ypsilanti...
. Mary Ellen Davis died of influenza in the flu pandemic October 20, 1918.
On 22 June, 1922, he married Dorothy Bacon in Coldwater, Michigan
Coldwater, Michigan
Coldwater is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 10,945. It is the county seat of Branch County....
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Fletcher received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1925.
Fletcher was Professor of English at the University of Illinois from 1926-1962, and
Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 1931-1938.
Fletcher played a major role in the establishment of the university's Rare Book and Special Collections Library, which now include the largest collection of the works of the poet John Milton in the United States.
He died in Champaign, Illinois in 1979.
Publications
- Milton's Semitic studies and some manifestations of them in his poetry
- Milton's rabbinical readings
- The use of the Bible in Milton's prose
- The intellectual development of John Milton
- Contributions to a Milton bibliography, 1800-1930, being a list of addenda to Stevens's Reference guide to Milton