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Matthiessen was an American studies scholar and literary critic at Harvard University, [6] and chaired its undergraduate program in history and literature. [7] He wrote and edited landmark works of scholarship on T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the James family (Alice James, Henry James, Henry James Sr., and William James), Sarah Orne Jewett, Sinclair Lewis, Herman Melville, Henry David ...
Scholar F. O. Matthiessen originated the phrase "American Renaissance" in his 1941 book American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman.The thematic center of the American Renaissance was what Matthiessen called the "devotion" of all five of his writers to "the possibilities of democracy".
The Notebooks weren't published until 1947, when they appeared in a heavily annotated edition compiled by F. O. Matthiessen and Kenneth Murdock. The editors pointed out notebook entries that eventually turned into finished works by James, and then went beyond that simple editorial function to discuss and evaluate the works themselves.
Helen Bayne Knapp, F. O. Matthiessen and Cheney at his garden, 1925. The youngest of eleven children, Cheney was born in Manchester, Connecticut, to Knight Dexter Cheney and Ednah Dow Cheney. [1] He graduated from Yale University in 1904, where he was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society. [2]
F.O. Matthiessen (1902-1950), Rhodes Scholar, Harvard professor; Robert A. Millikan (1868-1953), Nobel Prize physicist; Brian Stoltz (b. 1970), Professor of organic chemistry at Caltech; George Olah, Nobel Prize chemist, professor University of Southern California; Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, peace activist, Caltech
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Although Matthiessen was the financial angel of the new publication, from the outset the editorial task was handled by Sweezy and his co-thinker, the left wing popular writer Leo Huberman. The author of an array of books and pamphlets during the 1930s and early 1940s, the New York University -educated Huberman worked full-time on Monthly Review ...