Miner, Earl Roy

Biography

Miner was born on February 21, 1927 in Marshfield, Wisconsin; BA (1949), MA (1951), and Ph.D in English (1955), University of Minnesota; instructor in English, Williams College, 1953-55; from instructor to professor, UCLA, 1955-72; in 1972 became professor of English at Princeton University; advisory editor, Literary studies -- East and West, Eighteenth century studies, and CLIO; professor, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1971-72; published works include Japanese Court Poetry (1961) with Robert H. Brower, Japanese Poetic Diaries (1969), Seventeenth Century Imagery (ed. 1971), The Cavalier Mode from Jonson to Cotton (1971), English Criticism in Japan (ed. 1972), Stuart and Georgian Moments (1972), John Dryden (1973), and The Restoration Mode from Milton to Dryden (1974), A History of Japanese Literature / by Jinichi Konishi (1984-91), edited by Earl Miner, Naming Properties: Nominal References in Travel Basho and Sora, Johnson and Boswell (1996).