Biography:

Literary scholar; university professor. Born– April 6, 1934, in Montgomery, Ala. Parents– Harold Lerow and Lurline (Pierson) Weatherby. Education– Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1956; Yale University, M.A., 1957, Ph.D., 1962. Taught English at Vanderbilt, 1962-. Member– Phi Beta Kappa.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Cardinal Newman in His Age; His Place in English Theology and Literature. Nashville; Vanderbilt University Press, 1973.

The Keen Delight; the Christian Poet in the Modern World. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1975.

Mirrors of Celestial Grace: Patristic Theology in Spenser’s Allegory.  University of Toronto Press, 1994.