Thomas M. Greene (1) (1926–2003)
Author of The Light in Troy
For other authors named Thomas M. Greene, see the disambiguation page.
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Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community (Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature) (1999) — Contributor — 11 copies
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- Legal name
- Greene, Thomas McLermon
- Birthdate
- 1926-05-17
- Date of death
- 2003-07-23
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- scholar of English and comparative literature
university professor - Organizations
- Yale University
- Short biography
- Thomas McLernon Greene (May 17, 1926 – June 23, 2003) was an American scholar of English literature.
A native of Haddonfield, New Jersey, Greene was born on May 17, 1926. He completed his undergraduate degree at Yale University in 1949, after serving in the Counterintelligence Corps. from 1945 to 1947. Between 1949 and 1951, Greene attended the University of Paris. He became an instructor at Yale in 1954, a year before completing his doctorate in comparative literature, also at Yale. Green was named a full professor in 1966 and appointed the Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of English and Comparative Literature in 1978, serving until retirement in 1996. He continued to research and write until his death on June 23, 2003, in New Haven, Connecticut.[1] Yale held a public memorial service for Greene on September 5, 2003.[2] His wife Liliane Massarano died in 2010.[3]
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The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry (Elizabethan Club Series, 7) by Thomas M. Greene
As a Ph.D. in Renaissance English and comparative lit, I have read a good number of academic works, as well as the playful and grand works of Erasmus, Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and Moliere. This is one of the two best academic works I've read, the other being Shapiro's 1599. After I read it, I had the lovely opportunity to study with Tom Greene in an NEH postdoc at the Folger Library in the 90s; so it is doubly delicious to recommend his seminal work.
Though he read several languages, his show more principal second language was French, and his wife was a native speaker who said it was unfortunate for New Haven, "It turns its back on the sea."
Tom Greene's Light in Troy is enhanced by his wonderful ability to capture tone in his own translations. His generosity as a classroom or a tutorial presence, his genial wit and extensive knowledge of multiple literatures put him in a world apart. I once wrote this sonnet in his honor, and in memory of our Folger research seminar:
When like the afterlight of April days
The heat of our fair summer shall grow dim,
Or when the turtle from the pond mislays
Her eggs in sandy banks too near the rim,
When summers echoes are in ice encased
By freezing rains of dreary late December,
And our fair conversation long erased
Like chalk from walls that now cannot remember,
Then shall this paper, like a monument
To skirmishes forgotten by the young,
Remind us of our sometime regiment,
Demobbed, disbanded, and dispersed long,
Then shall we few, we veterans sixteen
Toast our fond service under Col'nel Greene. show less
Though he read several languages, his show more principal second language was French, and his wife was a native speaker who said it was unfortunate for New Haven, "It turns its back on the sea."
Tom Greene's Light in Troy is enhanced by his wonderful ability to capture tone in his own translations. His generosity as a classroom or a tutorial presence, his genial wit and extensive knowledge of multiple literatures put him in a world apart. I once wrote this sonnet in his honor, and in memory of our Folger research seminar:
When like the afterlight of April days
The heat of our fair summer shall grow dim,
Or when the turtle from the pond mislays
Her eggs in sandy banks too near the rim,
When summers echoes are in ice encased
By freezing rains of dreary late December,
And our fair conversation long erased
Like chalk from walls that now cannot remember,
Then shall this paper, like a monument
To skirmishes forgotten by the young,
Remind us of our sometime regiment,
Demobbed, disbanded, and dispersed long,
Then shall we few, we veterans sixteen
Toast our fond service under Col'nel Greene. show less
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