{"id":1770,"date":"2014-09-22T09:34:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T16:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2018-12-03T10:20:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T17:20:30","slug":"mcfarland-thomas-alfred-jr-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1770","title":{"rendered":"McFARLAND, THOMAS ALFRED, JR., 1926-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Literary scholar; University professor. Born&#8211; September 13, 1926, Birmingham, Ala. Parents&#8211; Thomas Alfred and Lucille (Sylvester) McFarland. Education&#8211; A.B., Harvard University, 1949;\u00a0 Yale, M.A., 1951; Ph.D.,\u00a0 1953; Fulbright scholar, University of Tubingen, 1953-1954.\u00a0Taught at\u00a0Oberlin College, 1954-1956, University of Virginia, 1956-1958, Western Reserve University, 1958-1967; Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1967-1978; Princeton, 1978&#8211;89; visiting professor, All Souls College, Oxford; University of Colorado; University of Virginia; Yale; and other institutions. Contributor to many scholarly journals and anthologies. \u00a0Member Modern Language Association.\u00a0 Fulbright Scholar, 1964-65, 74-75; \u00a0American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 1973-1974; National Foundation for the Humanities fellow, 1981-1982.\u00a0Honorary M.A., Oxford University, 1986. Awarded rank of\u00a0 Murray Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Princeton, 1989.\u00a0 Honored with a festschrift volume, The Coleridge Connection, 1989. \u00a0Died September 12, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directory of American Scholars, 1982, Who&#8217;s Who in America online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coleridge and the Pantheist Tradition. London; Clarendon Press, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>The Masks of Keats:\u00a0 The Endeavor of a Poet.\u00a0 Oxford University Press, \u00a02000.<\/p>\n<p>Originality and Imagination. Baltimore; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Paradoxes of Freedom: The Romantic Mystique of a Transcendence. Oxford University Press,\u00a0 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Romantic Cruxes, the English Essayists and the Spirit of the Age. New York; Oxford University Press, 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin; Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Modalities of Fragmentation. Princeton, N.J.; Princeton University Press, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Romanticism and the Heritage of Rousseau.\u00a0 Oxford University Press, \u00a01995.<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare&#8217;s Pastoral Comedy. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Shapes of Culture. Iowa City; University of Iowa Press, 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Tragic Meaning in Shakespeare. New York; Random, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>William Wordsworth:\u00a0 Intensity and Achievement.\u00a0 Clarendon Press, 1992<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Opus Maximum:\u00a0 The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.\u00a0 Princeton University Press, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Literary scholar; University professor. Born&#8211; September 13, 1926, Birmingham, Ala. Parents&#8211; Thomas Alfred and Lucille (Sylvester) McFarland. Education&#8211; A.B., Harvard University, 1949;\u00a0 Yale, M.A., 1951; Ph.D.,\u00a0 1953; Fulbright scholar, University of Tubingen, 1953-1954.\u00a0Taught at\u00a0Oberlin College, 1954-1956, University of Virginia, 1956-1958, Western Reserve University, 1958-1967; Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1967-1978; Princeton, 1978&#8211;89; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9107,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions\/9107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}