Robert Bernard Martin
Robert Bernard Martin was an American scholar and biographer, specializing in Victorian literature.Life
Robert Bernard Martin was born September 11, 1918, in La Harpe, Illinois, to Carl and Maggie Martin. He graduated from high school in Davenport and received his A.B. summa cum laude from the University of Iowa in 1943. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in Italy and France. He was Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University from 1951 to 1975, when he retired to Oxford.
Martin published several books about the Victorian era, including biographies of Alfred Tennyson, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edward Fitzgerald. His life of Tennyson won the James Tait Black Award and the Duff Cooper Prize.Works
