Herschel Clay Baker Explained

Herschel Clay Baker (8 November 1914, Cleburne, Texas – 2 February 1990, Belmont, Massachusetts) was an American professor of English literature, specializing in the intellectual history^[1] of Christian humanism^[2] and its erosion.^[3]

Baker's 1947 book The Dignity of Man is a series of chronological studies tracing the development of Christian humanism until the Reformation.^[2] His 1952 book on the decay of Christian humanism relies on earlier work by Hardin Craig and Basil Willey.^[3]

Baker was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic years 1956–1957 and 1963–1964.^[4] In 1966 he was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by Southern Methodist University.^[5]

Upon his death he was survived by his widow, one son, and two daughters.^{[1] [6]}

Selected publications

• Book: Later Renaissance in England : nondramatic verse and prose, 1600-1660 . Houghton Mifflin . 1975 . 9780395160381 . Baker . Herschel . 2 . Boston . none . registration.
• Book: Four essays on romance . Harvard University Press . 1971 . 978-0-674-31475-7 . Baker . Herschel . 2 . Cambridge, MA . none . registration.
• Book: Critical approaches to six major English works: Beowulf through Paradise Lost . University of Pennsylvania Press . 1968 . 9780812210071 . Baker . Herschel . 2 . Philadelphia . none . Lumiansky . Robert . Robert Lumiansky.
• Book: Baker, Herschel . Race of time: three lectures on Renaissance historiography . University of Toronto Press . 1967 . Toronto . none . 2 . registration. ^{[7] [8]}
• Book: Baker, Herschel . William Hazlitt . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press . 1962 . Cambridge, MA . none . 2. ^{[9] [10]}
• Book: Baker, Herschel . Hyder Edward Rollins: a bibliography . Harvard University Press . 1960 . Cambridge, MA . 654707 . none . 2.
• Book: Baker, Herschel . The war of truth . Harvard University Press . 1952 . Cambridge, MA . none . 2. ^[11]
• Book: Baker, Herschel . The Dignity of man: studies in the persistence of an idea . Harvard University Press . 1947 . 9780674734937 . Cambridge, MA . 10.4159/harvard.9780674734937 . none . 2.
• Book: Baker, Herschel . John Philip Kemble; the actor in his theatre . Harvard University Press . 1942 . 9780674734944 . New York . 10.4159/harvard.9780674734944 . none . 2.

References

1. News: English Prof. Emeritus Herschel Baker Dies at 75 . The Harvard Crimson. 3 February 1990.
2. 10.1177/004057364800500317. The Dignity of Man, by Herschel Baker. 365 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1947. $5.00. 1948. Cailliet. Émile. Theology Today. 5. 3. 433–435. 170810424 .
3. 510956. Sharrock. Roger. Reviewed work: The War of Truth: Studies in the Decay of Christian Humanism in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, Herschel Baker. The Review of English Studies. 5. 18. 191–193. 1954. 10.1093/res/V.18.191.
4. Web site: Herschel C. Baker. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
5. Web site: Herschel Clay Baker, Doctor of Letters 1966. Honorary Degrees, SMU.
6. Web site: William Terence Baker 1943–2013. Reno Gazette Journal (legacy.com).
7. Ferguson, Wallace K. . 1968 . Review of The Race of Time, Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography . Canadian Journal of History . 3 . 2 . 84 . 10.3138/cjh.3.2.84.
8. Poirier, Michel . 1968 . Revue de The Race of Time . Études Anglaises . 21 . 2 . 187.
9. Gettmann . Royal A. . 1963 . Reviewed work: William Hazlitt by Herschel Baker . The Journal of English and Germanic Philology . 62 . 3 . 692–695 . 27714332.
10. Carnall . Geoffrey . 1964 . Reviewed work: William Hazlitt by Herschel Baker . The Review of English Studies . 15 . 58 . 210–212 . 10.1093/res/XV.58.210 . 513452.
11. Sharrock . Roger . 1954 . Reviewed work: The War of Truth: Studies in the Decay of Christian Humanism in the Earlier Seventeenth Century by Herschel Baker . The Review of English Studies . 5 . 18 . 191–193 . 10.1093/res/V.18.191 . 510956.