Maynard Mack (October 27, 1909 – March 17, 2001) was an American literary critic and English professor. Mack earned both his bachelor's degree (1932; Alpheus Henry Snow Prize) and Ph.D. (1936) at Yale. An expert on Shakespeare and Alexander Pope, Mack taught at Yale University for many years, starting as an instructor of English in 1936 and ending his career as Sterling Professor Emeritus of English. He was remembered as an inspiring lecturer whose lectures on Shakespeare were described in one account as "unforgettable." He was president of Yale's Phi Beta Kappa chapter. He retired in 1978 after a long teaching career of 45 years at Yale University . He died at his home in New Haven on March 17, 2001 at the age of 90. An anonymous donor contributed in 1996 for installing an English department professorship in Mack's name. ( source - news.yale.edu dated 19 March 2001 )
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Books
(Co-editor with Ian Gregor) Imagined Worlds: Essays on Some English Novels and Novelists in Honour of John Butt (London: Metheun & Co., 1968)
Poetic Traditions of the English Renaissance (1982) The Last and Greatest Art (1984)
Prose and Cons: Monologues on Several Occasions (1989)
(as editor) The Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope (1939-1969) (12 vols.) (as series editor) Twentieth Century Views (Prentice-Hall, Inc., 156 vols.)Twentieth Century Views (Prentice-Hall/Spectrum Books program), publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 4 August 2026. (as series editor) Twentieth Century Interpretations (Prentice-Hall, Inc., 97 vols.)Twentieth Century Interpretations (Prentice-Hall/Spectrum Books program), publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 4 August 2026. (as series editor) New Century Views (Prentice-Hall, Inc., 17 vols.)
See also Literary criticism English studies Alexander Pope William Shakespeare Sterling Professor
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External links
Maynard Mack Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.