E. D. Hirsch, Jr. (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Eric Donald Hirsch, Jr., is the son of Rabbi Eric Donald Hirsch and Leah Aschaffenberg Hirsch. Hirsch received his training in literary scholarship first at Cornell University, from which he received a B.A. degree in 1950, and at Yale University, which granted him an M.A. in English in 1955 and a Ph.D. in 1957. A revised version of his doctoral dissertation on William Wordsworth and Friedrich Schelling and their philosophical contributions to literary Romanticism was published in 1960, followed in 1964 by his book on William Blake, a model of the close reading of poetry growing in...
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