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The Academic Bestiary
Book by Armour, Richard Willard
153 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1974
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Richard Armour
151 books38 followersRichard Armour, a college professor of English who specialized in Chaucer and the English Romantic poets, was best known as a prolific author of light verse and wacky parodies of academic scholarship. He was a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont from 1945 to 1966.
Armour was raised in Pomona, California, where his father owned a drugstore. He graduated from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, then obtained his master's and Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard. He was a Harvard research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum library in London.
Armour was raised in Pomona, California, where his father owned a drugstore. He graduated from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, then obtained his master's and Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard. He was a Harvard research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum library in London.
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July 8, 2014
In high school I envisioned college as being all preppy and somewhat New England: a cross between Animal House and Love Story and Heartbreak Hotel. None of this made any sense to me when I first read it, but I wanted to get it. Because I really didn't like high school.
August 23, 2008
A little parody encyclopedia of the characters found in academia. Not extremely deep, but cute and occasionally amusing.
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