Robert D. Lamberton

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Robert Drummond Lamberton is a classics scholar, poet, and translator of ancient and contemporary literature, most notably Maurice Blanchot's Thomas the Obscure . He is currently professor emeritus in the Classics Department at Washington University in St. Louis. [1] Lamberton was born in Providence, Rhode Island and graduated in 1964 from Harvard College magna cum laude with a degree in Romance languages and literature. He has a master's (1970) and a doctoral degree in comparative literature from Yale University (1979), and has taught at Columbia, Princeton, and Cornell universities. He has written eight books.

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  1. "Robert Lamberton | Department of Classics". classics.artsci.wustl.edu. Archived from the original on 2009-06-20.