Maynard Mack

 ( 1909 Births ) 

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 University. 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."

• (1969). 9780802052094, University of Toronto Press. . ISBN 9780802052094
• (1982). 9780874131826, University of Delaware Press. . ISBN 9780874131826
• Poetic Traditions of the English Renaissance (1982)
• The Last and Greatest Art (1984)
• (1985). 9780393022087, Norton. . ISBN 9780393022087
• Prose and Cons: Monologues on Several Occasions (1989)
• (as editor) The Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope (1939-1969) (12 vols.)

• Literary criticism
• English studies
• Alexander Pope
• William Shakespeare
• Sterling Professor

• . Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.