Walter Clyde Curry

Walter Clyde Curry (January 6, 1887 - October 2, 1967) was an American poet and medeival scholar, a member of the Fugitives school.

Life
Curry was born in Graycourt, South Carolina. He earned a B.A. in 1909 at Wofford College, and an M.A. in 1913 and Ph.D. in 1915 at Stanford University.

He was a professor of English at Vanderbilt University 1915-1955, and chaired the English Department from 1941 until his 1955 retirement. He was a founding member of the Fugitives (poets), which began at Vanderbilt around 1915, and published poetry in their literary magazine, The Fugitive (1922-1925), under the pen name "Marpha.

In 1927 he married Kathryn Worth, who bore him one daughter, Josephine (born March 29, 1929). He died in Nashville, Tennessee, aged 80.

Recognition
Curry was awarded an honorary Litt.D. by Wofford College in 1952.

He was the subject of a 1954 festschrift, [http://archive.org/details/essaysinhonorofw02nash Essays in honor of Walter Clyde Curry  (Nashville,TN: Vanderbilt University Press).