Thomas Middleton Raysor

Thomas Middleton Raysor (March 9, 1895–September 8, 1974) was an American literary scholar. He was born at Chapel Hill, Texas.

He received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1917, joining the Army in 1918, and a Ph.D. in 1922. In Europe for a year, he studied S. T. Coleridge, returning to a position at the University of Minnesota. Then at the State College of Washington, he held a Guggenheim Fellowship. From 1930 he was Chairman of the English Department at the University of Nebraska.

Works

*"Coleridge's Shakespearean Criticism" (1930) editor
*"Coleridge's Miscellaneous Criticism" (1936) editor
*"The English Romantic Poets: a Review of Research" (1950) editor
*"Selected Critical Essays of Wordsworth and Coleridge"