Phillip Harth (February 1, 1926 – April 28, 2020) was an American literary scholar. Phillip Harth was a

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, native, born to parents John and Grace Harth on February 1, 1926. He attended

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. Upon completing his bachelor's degree in 1946, Harth served in the United States Army. Harth obtained a master's degree from the

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in 1949, and continued his doctoral studies, funded partly by a

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, at the

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. Harth began teaching at

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in 1956, two years before the University of Chicago awarded him a doctorate. He was awarded a

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in 1962, and taught at Northwestern until 1965. The next year, Harth joined the

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faculty. From 1977 to his retirement in 1996, Harth held the Merritt Y. Hughes Professorship in English. He died in

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, on April 28, 2020.

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