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Edward Killoran Brown was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1905. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1926 and was a fellow of the University of Paris from 1926-1929 from which he received his Docteur des lettres in 1935. He was a lecturer and assistant professor of English at Cornell University, and professor of English at the University of Chicago from 1944 until his death in 1951. He was, in addition, Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada in 1942 and a Trustee of the Newberry Library.

Besides being the author of several books on Matthew Arnold, one on Victorian poetry, one on Edith Wharton, and a translator of Balzac's Pere Goriot and Cazamian's Work on Carlyle, Edward Brown was also a supporter of Canadian poetry. He wrote On Canadian Poetry in 1943 and was editor of the Canadian number of Poetry Magazine (Vol. 63, No. 1, April 1941) and a contributor of several articles on the leading Canadian poets.

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