In Memoriam A. Walton Litz (1929–2014)

A. Walton Litz, a longtime member of the editorial board of The Wallace Stevens Journal, died on June 4, 2014, in the University Medical Center of Princeton, New Jersey Walt was bom in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1929, and having grown up in what he often called (following Ezra Pound) a "half savage country, out of date," he enrolled in 1947 as a freshman at Princeton University, where his teachers included Carlos Baker, John Berryman, Lawrence Thompson, and most influentially, Richard Blackmur. In 1956 Walt joined the faculty of the Princeton English Department, and five years later a version of his D.Phil. thesis was published by Oxford University Press as The Art of James Joyce. Over these years, The Art of James Joyce was followed by, among other books, Jane Austen: A Study of Her Artistic Development (1965), Introspective Voyager: The Poetic Development of Wallace Stevens (1972), Eliot in His Time (1973), and Wallace Stevens: The Poetry of Earth (1981); he also produced foundational editions of Pound, Joyce, and Williams.