Harry Levin

Harry Tuchman Levin ( born July 18, 1912 in Minneapolis, † 29 May 1994, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American literary scholar and critic.

Levin studied until 1933, English and American Literature at Harvard University and taught there from 1939 until his retirement in 1983. He is one of the founders of comparative literature and was from 1960 to 1983 Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature. In addition to modern literature, his main interest was the work of William Shakespeare and English literature of the Renaissance.

Since 1985, awards the American Comparative Literature Association, the Harry Levin Prize for literary history and critical books. The Harvard University the Harry Levin Professor of Literature established a 1997.

Writings

• James Joyce: A Critical Introduction ( 1941)
• Toward Stendhal (1945 )
• Published by: The Portable James Joyce (1947 )
• Toward Balzac (1947 )
• Edited: Perspectives of Criticism (1950 )
• The over reacher, a study of Christopher Marlowe (1952 )
• Symbolism and Fiction (1956 )
• Contexts of Criticism (1957 )
• The Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville (1958 )
• The Question of Hamlet ( 1959)
• Irving Babbitt and the Teaching of Literature (1960 )
• Published by: The Scarlet Letter and other Tales of the Puritans by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1961 )
• The Gates of Horn: A Study of Five French Realists (1963 )
• Published by: The Comedy of Errors (1965 )
• Refractions: Essays in Comparative Literature (1966 )
• Playboys and Killjoys: An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy (1988 )

Swell

• Harvard University Library - Levin, Harry, 1912-1994. Harry Levin Papers, 1920-1995: Guide.
• JSTOR: "Proceedings of the American Philsophica " VOL 140 No. 1, March 1996 - Harry Tuchman Levin

• Man
• Born in 1912
• Died in 1994
• Author
• Literary scholar
• Literary critic
• Literature ( English )
• Literature (United States)