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...Buckley, who was Gurney professor of English literature emeritus, came to Harvard in 1969 at the height of campus turmoil...
...extraordinarily generous to both colleagues and students,” Engell said. “At a time before the word accessibility had entered the vocabulary, Jerry Buckley would have been called ultra-accessible...
Born in Toronto, Canada, Buckley earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto in 1939, and did his post-graduate work at Harvard, where he earned his doctoral degree...
...Buckley, who became a U.S. citizen in 1948, was a Guggenheim fellow in 1946-47 and again in 1964. He was awarded Phi Beta Kappa’s Christian Gaus Prize in 1952. Buckley was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as a member of the Board of Syndics of the Harvard University Press. He also taught at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University before returning to Harvard...
...Buckley authored several books during his lifetime, including The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture (1951), Tennyson: The Growth of a Poet (1960) and The Turning Key: Autobiography and the Subjective Impulse Since...