Marie Edith Borroff (September 10, 1923 – July 5, 2019) was an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

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, and the Sterling Professor of English emerita at

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Life

Borroff was born in

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in 1923, the daughter of professional musicians Marie Bergerson and (Albert) Ramon Borroff, and sister of composer Edith Borroff. She graduated from the

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with a BA and MA in 1946,"Class News", ''The University of Chicago Magazine''
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with a Ph.D. in 1956. In 1959, she became the first woman to teach in the English Department at Yale. In 1965, she was the first woman appointed to be an English professor. She retired in 1994. An Endowed Chair at Yale has been named for her.

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External links

"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (lines 1-19)", ''Norton Anthology of English Literature''
on

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focusing on the poem The Auroras of Autumn (part of

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