Edward McCrorie

Who is Edward McCrorie?

Edward McCrorie is a Professor Emeritus of English at Providence College in Providence, RI. He is the author of four collections of poetry and three verse translations of epics by Virgil and Homer.

He was educated in local schools in Rhode Island and spent two and one half years at Our Lady of Providence Seminary in Warwick Neck, RI. From 1955 to 1959 he served with the U.S. Navy as an aircraft electrician, visiting ports in England and Greece.

He then resumed his education at Assumption College in Worcester, MA, graduating in 1962, and taking the MA in English from Villanova University in 1964.

He began his career as an English Professor at Providence College in September 1964, and continued graduate work at Brown University, earning the Ph.D. in the spring of 1970.

He had married his first wife, Therese McNeil of Central Falls, RI,in the summer of 1959. The two had four daughters over the years, Jeanne, Julia, Joyce and Cynthia.

He began publishing short poems in 1969 and saw his first book into print, After a Cremation, in 1974.

Brief translations of Virgil's Aeneid in that book led to further experiments.