Walter Clyde Curry

• Name — Walter Clyde Curry • Born — 1887 • Birthplace — Gray Court, South Carolina, U.S. • Died — October 2, 1967 • Place of death — Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. • Education — Wofford College Stanford University • Employer — Vanderbilt University • Occupation — Academic, poet • Spouse — Kathryn Worth • Parents — William Collier Curry Martha Yeargin

Walter Clyde Curry was born in 1887 in Gray Court, South Carolina. He graduated from Wofford College, and he earned a master's degree and PhD from Stanford University.

Curry joined the English department at Vanderbilt University in 1915. A poet, he became a member of the Fugitives under the penname of Marpha in the 1920s. He taught at Peabody College from 1930 to 1941. He was the chair of the English department at Vanderbilt University from 1941 to 1955. On his retirements, his former students, including Cleanth Brooks, published a volume of essays about Curry's scholarship. Curry was a medievalist, and a member of the Medieval Academy of America. He was also a member of the Modern Language Association.

Curry married Kathryn Worth in 1927. They had a daughter, who married Joseph Rainey. He died on October 2, 1967, in Nashville, at the age of 80.

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