Herbert Howarth died in 1971. He was Professor of English in the University of Pennsylvania. He was the author of The Irish Writers (1959), Notes on Some Figures Behind T.S. Eliot (1966), and The Tiger’s Heart (1969).
Doctoral Dissertations Chaired
1972
Lois S. Keates
"The Novels of Irish Murdoch: Myth, Morals, and Metaphysics "
1971
David B McGrail
"The Narrator in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad"
Ruth Perlmutter
"Arthur Waley 1889-1996"
1970
Patricia M Boyle
"The Development of a Critical Perspective in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell "
Judith Reiter Cohen
"The Holy Estate; D. H. Lawrence's Views on Marriage"
Ruth L Hallford
"The Early Fiction of Samuel Beckett"
Helen M Yanko
"Conrad as Psychologist"
1969
Robert Boyer
"Anglo-Saxon and Middle English Influences in the Poetry of W. H. Auden"
Norman T Gates
"The Poetry of Richard Aldington: Its Value and Influence"
William H. Hardesty
"Joseph Conrad: The Last Seven Years"
1968
Dirk R. Budd
"The Vicissitudes of the Osborne Protest from 1956 to 1964"
1967
Paula Duffey Robison
"Form and Meaning in the Novels of George Orwell"
Frederic Jacobs
"The Reputation of Ford Madox Ford"
Ann S Johnson
"Lawrence Durrell's "Prism-Sightedness": The Structure of The Alexandria Quartet"
1966
William A. Dumbleton
"The Literary Relationship of Robert Bridges to Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1889–1900"