Linton Lomas Barrett, Ph.D. (1 September 1904 – 8 March 1972) was an influential educator, administrator, diplomat, editor, Hispanist and translator of

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Life

Barrett was born in

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, the son of Linton Stephens Barrett, a Baptist minister and educator, and Carrie Elizabeth Barrett, née Lomas. He was known as "Lomas" to distinguish him from his father. He graduated from

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, A.B. (''magna cum laude''), in 1928. Barrett married Elizabeth Elliott in 1929. She died in 1932 very soon after the birth of their only son, Arthur Lomas Barrett. His second wife was Cornelia, from whom he was soon divorced. He married Marie Hamilton McDavid on 26 May 1937, and their daughter, Ellen Marie Barrett, was born in 1946. Barrett earned his Ph.D. from

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in 1938. Barrett was an instructor at

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, the

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, and colleges across the southeastern

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before joining

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as a professor of

s in 1948. He was department head throughout the 1960s and part of the faculty until the year of his death. During the 1950s he also served as a public affairs officer at U.S.

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and

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. Barrett edited the textbook, still in current use, '' Five Centuries of Spanish Literature: From The ''Cid'' through the Golden Age'', and served as associate editor of ''

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''. He translated numerous works, including

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's '' O Tempo e o Vento'' (''Time and the Wind'') and

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's '' A Man with Seven Names''. He was a member of the

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, the

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, and

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. Barrett is buried in

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Publications

Author

* (Editor with R. W. Linker) ''A Mediaeval Italian Anthology'', privately published, 1938. * '' Five Centuries of Spanish Literature'', Dodd, 1962. * ''Barron's Simplified Approach to Cervantes: Don Quixote'',

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(Woodbury, NY), 1971. * ''A Comparative Study of Six Manuscripts of Juan Perez de Montalban's ''Como padre y como rey, edited by Carmen Iranzo de Ebersole, introduction by Sturgis E. Leavitt, Estudios de Hispanofila (Chapel Hill, NC), 1976.

Translator

, ''

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'', Macmillan, 1951. * Verissimo, ''Night'', Macmillan, 1956. * Manuel A. de Almeida, ''Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant'', Pan American Union, 1959. * Verissimo, ''Mexico'', Orion, 1960. * Vianna Moog, '' Bandeirantes and Pioneers'', Braziller, 1963. *

, '' A Man with Seven Names'', Knopf, 1965. * Verissimo, '' His Excellency, the Ambassador'', Macmillan, 1966. Dr. Barrett was associate editor of ''

'' from 1950 to 1964. He had articles published in numerous Spanish-American newspapers and in professional journals in several countries.

References

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