James Holly Hanford

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James Holly Hanford (1882 - 1969) was a professor and author known for his scholarship on John Milton. He taught at Harvard University, Case Western Reserve University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Princeton, and Kenyon. His students included Waverley Turner Carmichael, Paul Green [1] and C. A. Patrides. The Milton Society of America awards the James Holly Hanford Award in his name. [2] He wrote A Milton Handbook. Princeton University has a collection of his correspondence mostly related to his research of Milton. [3]

He received a Phd from Harvard in 1909. [4]

He contributed to the Cyclopedia Americana . He co-authored The teaching of literature.

He married Hellen Margaret Ellwanger in 1909 and they had three children: Margaret E., Barbara E., and Grace E. [5]

A Milton Evening in Honor of James Holly Hanford was published in 1948. [6]

He wrote about his experiences at Chapel Hill. [1]

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  1. 1 2 Avery, Laurence G. (November 9, 2000). A Paul Green Reader. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN   9780807866481 via Google Books.
  2. "James Holly Hanford Award Recipients (Book) | The Milton Society of America". Archived from the original on 2019-04-18. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
  3. "James Holly Hanford Correspondence | Princeton University Library Special Collections". library.princeton.edu.
  4. "James Holly Hanford, 1927-1953". 2 July 2015.
  5. "Bio | Faculty History Project". faculty-history.dc.umich.edu.
  6. A Milton evening in honor of James Holly Hanford. The New School. January 27, 1948. OCLC   1071517016 via Open WorldCat.
  7. Tindall, W. Y. (23 October 1949). "The Frustrated and Heroic Milton; JOHN MILTON, ENGLISHMAN. By James Holly Hanford. 272 pp. New York: Crown Publishers $3.75. Heroic Milton". The New York Times.