Angus Fletcher (June 3, 1930 – November 28, 2016) was an American critic and literary scholar.
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Biography
Angus Fletcher was born on June 23, 1930 to Scottish parents. He grew up mainly in East Hampton, Long Island and New York City. His father, Sir Angus Somerville Fletcher, was a former director of the British Library of Information in New York, and his mother, Helen Stewart Fletcher, was a painter.
He earned a B.A. and M.A. from Yale University and a PhD in English Literature from Harvard University. Over the course of his career, he taught at Columbia, UCLA, Buffalo, Cornell and Lehman College at CUNY Graduate Center.
Books
Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode. Cornell: Cornell University Press, 1964.
The prophetic moment; an essay on Spencer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. ISBN 0226253325
The Transcendental Masque; an Essay on Milton's Comus. Ithaca-London: Cornell University Press, 1971. ISBN 080140620X
Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-6741-4312-4
A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of the Imagination. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-674-01988-1, 9780674019881
Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780674023086
The Topological Imagination. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780674504561