Raymond Dexter Havens
Rochester, New York, 1880 - 1954
Dates:
Birth 1880
Death 1954
Biographical notes:
Raymond Dexter Havens was a professor of English Literature.
He was born in Rochester, New York in 1880. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1898, and received his Ph. D. in English from Harvard, 1908. He returned to teach at the University of Rochester, and served as a Y.M.C.A. volunteer in France, 1917-1919. In 1925, he was appointed Caroline Donovan Professor of English at The Johns Hopkins University, a post he held until his retirement in 1949. Havens was an editor of MLN and was recognized as an eminent scholar of Milton and Wordsworth. Raymond Dexter Havens died in 1954.
From the description of Raymond Dexter Havens papers, 1752-1954. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 48394881
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