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Article: William W. Heath, 64 Amherst College professor
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 25, 1993
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William W. Heath, professor of English at Amherst College, died
Sunday in Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. He was 64.
Mr. Heath, an Amherst College graduate, specialized in the
romantic poetry and modern novels of Great Britain. He was the
author of "Elizabeth Bowen: An Introduction to Her Novels" (1961)
and "Wordsworth and Coleridge: A Study of Their Literary Relations in
1801-1802" (1970).
He was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and graduated from Amherst College
in 1951. He earned a master's degree in English at Columbia
University the following year and a doctorate at the University of
Wisconsin in 1956.
He returned to Amherst College as an instructor in 1956 and
continued to ...