Hugh Kenner (1923–2003)
Author of The Pound Era
About the Author
Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) was one of America's great literary critics. He wrote on a range of subjects, including Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, and geodesic domes. The following books by Hugh Kenner are available from Dalkey Archive Press: The Counterfeiters, Flaubert, Joyce, show more and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians and Joyce's Voices. show less
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Works by Hugh Kenner
A Starchamber Quiry: A James Joyce Centennial Volume, 1882-1982 (1982) — Editor; Contributor — 10 copies
Eliot in his time;: Essays on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of The waste land (1973) — Contributor — 9 copies
Literary theory and structure: essays in honor of William K. Wimsatt (1973) — Contributor — 3 copies
"Beaufoy's Masterplaster" 1 copy
"Jim the Comedian" 1 copy
Gnomon 1 copy
Gnonom 1 copy
"Taxonomy of an Octopus" 1 copy
"The Jokes at the Wake" 1 copy
"Prometheus' Diary" 1 copy
"The Joycean Present" 1 copy
Pound on Joyce 1 copy
"Molly's Masterstroke" 1 copy
"Berlitz Days" 1 copy
The invention of China 1 copy
"The Rhetoric of Silence" 1 copy
"Signs on a White Field" 1 copy
"Shem the Textman" 1 copy
"Focus on Pound" 1 copy
"The Search for Joyce" 1 copy
"From a Lost World" 1 copy
"Homer's Sticks and Stones" 1 copy
"Gee!" 1 copy
"Creativity and Inequality" 1 copy
"Images of James Joyce" 1 copy
"Sauce for the Goose" 1 copy
"The Most Beautiful Book" 1 copy
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 947 copies, 7 reviews
Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (1931) — Introduction, some editions — 681 copies, 7 reviews
The Translations of Ezra Pound (1963) — Editor, some editions; Introduction, some editions — 162 copies
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986) — Contributor, some editions; some editions; some editions — 122 copies
Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century (1970) — Contributor — 82 copies
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Contributor — 40 copies, 1 review
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) (2003) — Contributor — 26 copies
Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the Schism in the American Soul (2002) — Contributor — 25 copies, 1 review
T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1986) — Contributor, some editions — 20 copies
Agenda : Wyndham Lewis special issue — Contributor — 6 copies
Ezra Pound's Cantos: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) (2006) — Contributor, some editions — 5 copies
A Poem Containing History: Textual Studies in The Cantos (Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism) (1997) — Contributor — 3 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Kenner, Hugh
- Legal name
- Kenner, William Hugh
- Birthdate
- 1923-01-07
- Date of death
- 2003-11-24
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Canada
USA - Birthplace
- Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
- Place of death
- Athens, Georgia, USA
- Places of residence
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Education
- University of Toronto (BA - English, MA - English)
Yale University (PhD) - Occupations
- professor
literary critic
columnist
mathematician
computer programmer
biographer (show all 8)
essayist
editor - Relationships
- McLuhan, Marshall (teacher)
Brooks, Cleanth (teacher)
Pound, Ezra (friend)
Beckett, Samuel (friend) - Organizations
- Royal Society of Literature
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
American Council of Learned Societies
American Academy of Arts and Letters
National Institute of Arts and Letters (show all 12)
Johns Hopkins University
University of Georgia
Art & Antiques
Byte
National Review
Wired - Awards and honors
- Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies (1949)
Fellow, American Philosophical Society (1956)
Guggenheim fellow, 1957-58, 1964
National Institute of Arts and Letters/American Academy of Arts and Letters prize, 1969
LL.D., University of Notre Dame, 1984 - Short biography
- Kenner wrote books of scholarly criticism on some of the most difficult authors in literature (Joyce, Pound, Eliot); literary history; a book on cartoonist Chuck Jones; geodesic math; and a user's guide to the Heathkit H100/Zenith Z-100 computer. He was also a columnist for Art & Antiques and Byte magazine.
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Statistics
- Works
- 81
- Also by
- 37
- Members
- 2,475
- Popularity
- #10,360
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 16
- ISBNs
- 100
- Languages
- 4
- Favorited
- 12