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Stuart Pratt Sherman (1881-1926) was an American literary critic and educator of the early 20th century noted for his criticisms of H. L. Mencken. ==Background, education, and academic career== Sherman was born to New Englanders John and Ada Martha (Pratt) Sherman on 1 October 1881 in Anita, Iowa. The family later relocated to Rolfe, Iowa and finally, in 1887, to Los Angeles, California. Despite moving to this more healthful climate, Sherman’s father, a druggist and lover of music and poetry, died when Sherman was just eleven. The family subsequently returned to New England. Sherman entered Williams College in 1900 where he won prizes in Latin, French, and German, and became editor of the “Williams Literary Monthly.” He graduated with a Ph.D. in 1906 after writing his thesis on the 17th-century dramatist John Ford. Upon graduation, Sherman became an instructor at Northwestern University for one year before moving to the University of Illinois (U of I). In 1908 he was offered a position of the staff of ''The Nation'', to which he was a frequent contributor, but declined when U of I made him an associate professor. He became a full professor in 1911 and permanent chairman of the U of I English Department in 1914 where he built the department into one of the strongest in the Midwest. He was a natural teacher, noted for his sound scholarship, especially on the works of Matthew Arnold, and for his passion for the living values of literature. In April 1924, Sherman became editor of “Books,” the literary supplement to the New York Herald Tribune, which became under his editorship the leading American critical journal of the day. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stuart Sherman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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