Thomas Middleton Raysor

Who was Thomas Middleton Raysor?

Thomas Middleton Raysor 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.