George Mills Harper
George Mills Harper (born November 5, 1914, in
Linn Creek,
Missouri - died on January 29, 2006, in
Tallahassee,
Florida) was an
American academic, a
WW2 U.S. Navy officer and professor emeritus of
English literature. Harper is remembered today, mainly, as a literary scholar of the Irish poet and mystic,
W. B. Yeats, who was a Nobel laureate in literature (1923). He is known for his prolific publications and authoritative books about Yeats's lifelong occult activity and interests, which began and developed early in his poetical career. Harper was also, for a much lesser extent, an academic scholar of the
Neoplatonism of
William Blake.
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