Biography:

Literary scholar; University professor. Born– July 17, 1925, Florence, Ala. Parents– Isham Harrison and Clara (Singleton) Patty. Education– University of North Carolina, A.B., 1945; M.A., 1947; Ph.D. Taught at the University of Colorado, 1953-1954; University of Tennessee, 1954-1960; Washington and Lee University, 1960-1964; Vanderbilt University, 1964-1988. Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Toulouse, 1951-1952. Helped found the W. T. Bandy Center for Beaudelaire and Modern French Studies at Vanderbilt. Published widely in scholarly journals.   Awarded emeritus status on his retirement at Vanderbilt in 1988. Died August 25, 2012.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online; obituary.

Editor:

Electre; Piece en Deux Actes. New York; Appleton, 1965.

Joint_Editor:

Beaudelaire and the Politics of Modernity.  Vanderbilt, 2001.

Etudes Baudelairiennes III; Hommage W. T. Bandy. Neuchatel; Baconniere, 1973.