John Louis Edwin Clubbe (February 21, 1938 – February 24, 2022) was an American academic. He was an emeritus professor of English at the

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Biography

Clubbe received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. He also attended the

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in 1966. He taught at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

and the University of Kentucky from 1976 to 1999 and is an expert on

English Romanticism Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century. Scholars regard the publishing of William Wordsworth's and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Coleridge's ''Lyrical Ballads ...

, especially the works of

Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and Peerage of the United Kingdom, peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and h ...

. He was a longtime president of the International Association of Byron Societies and the Byron Society of America, where he was chair from 1974 through 1999. Clubbe received a

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in 1975 as well as a

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

into

Thomas Carlyle Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature and philosophy. Born in Ecclefechan, Dum ...

. He died on February 24, 2022, at age 84.

Bibliography

* ''Victorian Forerunner: The Later Career of Thomas Hood'' (1968) * ''Selected Poems of Thomas Hood'' (1970), editor * ''Two Reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle'' (1974), editor * ''Nineteenth Century Literary Perspectives'' (1974), editor * ''Carlyle and His Contemporaries'' (1977), editor * ''Froude's Life of Carlyle'' (1979), editor * ''Byron et la Suisse'' (1982) * ''English Romanticism: The Grounds of Belief'' (co-author with Ernest J. Lovell, 1983) * ''Victorian Perspectives: Six Essays'' (co-author with Jerome Meckier, 1989) * ''Cincinnati Observed: Architecture and History'' (1992) * ''Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary'' (2019)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clubbe, John Columbia College (New York) alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of Paris alumni University of Kentucky faculty Fellows of the National Endowment for the Humanities 2022 deaths 1938 births American academics of English literature