Theodore Spencer

Theodore Spencer (1902–1949) was an American poet and academic.

Life He graduated from Princeton University in 1923, and a Ph.D from Harvard University in 1928. He then taught there, from 1927 to 1949. He was appointed lecturer in English literature at Cambridge University, England, in 1939. In 1942, Spencer gave the Lowell lectures on Shakespeare, published as Shakespeare and the Nature of Man, his most important work. From 1946 to 1949, he was the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard.

Spencer also published essays, short stories, and poetry.

Spencer died of a heart attack in a taxi. His notebook is at Princeton University, and papers are at Harvard University.

Awards Golden Rose Award

Works

Poetry

Essays