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 in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

. He also attended the

University of Paris The University of Paris (), known Metonymy, metonymically as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution. Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated wit ...

in 1966. He taught at

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and the University of Kentucky from 1976 to 1999 and is an expert on English Romanticism, especially the works of

Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest poets of the United Kingdom. Among his best-kno ...

. 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

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into

Thomas Carlyle Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher. Known as the "Sage writing, sage of Chelsea, London, Chelsea", his writings strongly influenced the intellectual and artistic culture of the V ...

. 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