William Hugh Kenner was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor.
10 Facts About Hugh Kenner
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Hugh Kenner published widely on Modernist literature with particular emphasis on James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Samuel Beckett.
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Hugh Kenner taught classics and his mother Mary Hugh Kenner taught French and German at Peterborough Collegiate Institute.
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Hugh Kenner attributed his interest in literature to his poor hearing, caused by a bout of influenza during his childhood.
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In 1950, Hugh Kenner earned a PhD from Yale University, with a dissertation on James Joyce, James Joyce: Critique in Progress, for Cleanth Brooks.
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Hugh Kenner's first teaching post was at the University of California, Santa Barbara ; he then taught at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Georgia.
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Hugh Kenner played an influential role in raising Ezra Pound's profile among critics and other readers of poetry.
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Hugh Kenner shared a close correspondence with Guy Davenport, the noted scholar and fiction writer.
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Hugh Kenner was married twice: his first wife, Mary Waite, died in 1964; the couple had three daughters and two sons.
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Hugh Kenner died at his home in Athens, Georgia, on November 24,2003.