piersplowman's profile piers i. lewis / 77, Male / Member since March 2008 / Last seen 3 months ago
I'm a scholar by profession who learned, too late, that the world really does not need another book about Shakespeare--especially one that reads like souped-up Cliff-Notes. What else is there to say? Except, as another, much greater scholar once said, "Sir, my history will not be long: the life that is devoted to knowledge passes silently away and is very little diversified by events. To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself." I was educated at Amherst College (1949-53) where I studied philosophy, mathematics, and literature, and at Harvard University where I earned a Ph.D in English Literature in 1964. I studied at Cambridge University on a Fulbright (1954-55), served in the U.S. Army (1955-57), taught (from 1962 to 1999, when I retired) at Wellesley College, Bemidji State University, Metropolitan State University, Hebei University (PRC). I have been happily married to Katherine Greene Lewis since 1960. We have four children.
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