Field-Of-Study: English Literature
Harold William Thompson
As published in the Foundation’s Annual Report for 1925–26: Thompson, Harold William: Appointed for research in connection with the preparation of a Life of Henry Mackenzie—a Scottish man of letters of the Eighteenth Century—principally in the libraries of Scotland; tenure, twelve months from August 1, 1925. Born June 5, 1891, in Buffalo, New York. Education:
Edward W. Tayler
Edward W. Tayler, the Lionel Trilling Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University, was educated at Amherst College (B.A., 1954) and Stanford University (Ph.D., 1960). Professor Tayler has taught at Stanford, Princeton, the Bread Loaf School of English, and Columbia (since 1960). He has led on rare occasions an active if not interesting professional