Feltus Wylie Sypher (December 12, 1905 – August 1987) was an American non-fiction writer and professor. Sypher was born in Mount Kisco, New York to Harry Wylie Sypher and Martha Berry. He graduated from Amherst College in 1927. He received a master's degree from

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in 1929 and became an instructor at

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. That same year he married Lucy Johnston. In 1932, he received his second master's degree from

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. He earned his Ph.D. in 1937 from Harvard. Sypher taught summers at the

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, the

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, and in the 1968 summer session he became the first Robert Frost Professor of Literature at the

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at Middlebury College, where he had taught since 1957. Professor Sypher was twice awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for research in the theory of fine arts and literature."About the Author" in ''Literature and Technology: The Alien Vision,'' p. 259. Throughout his life, Sypher wrote on the history of art and literature, sometimes combining both. Sypher viewed art history and criticism as the same thing. He died in Hackettstown, New Jersey in 1987.

Works

*''Four Stages of Renaissance Style'' (1955) *''Rococo to Cubism in Art and Literature'' (1960) *''Loss of the Self in Modern Literature and Art'' (1962) *''Literature and Technology: The Alien Vision'' (1968) *''The Ethic of Time: Structures of Experience in Shakespeare'' (1976) *''Art History: An Anthology of Modern Criticism'' (editor, 1963)

References

External links

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