Nancy Hargrove speaks at Cup of Chaucer Program, SPL. Photo by Nancy Jacobs
Major Works
- T.S. Eliot’s Parisian Year (2010)
- The Journey Toward Ariel: Sylvia Plath’s Poetry of 1956-1959 (1994)
- Landscape as Symbol in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot (1978)
Biography
Nancy Hargrove is a Professor Emeritus at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi, in the English Department. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Agnes Scott College, a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, and her doctorate from the University of South Carolina.
Hargrove is the author of three books, Landscape as Symbol in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot (1978), The Journey Toward Ariel: Sylvia Plath’s Poetry of 1956-1959 (1994), and T.S. Eliot’s Parisian Year (2009); over forty essays in books and scholarly journals on the works of Eliot, Plath, Yeats, Faulkner, Welty, Shakespeare, and others; and over one hundred paper presentations.
She received five Fulbright grants which allowed her to lecture in France, Belgium, Sweden, and Austria. She has been a board member of Starkville Reads and frequently does Cup and Chaucer for the Starkville Public Library.
Michael Kardos, Nancy Jacobs, Nancy Hargrove, Becky Hagenston, and Catherine Pierce after a Starkville Reads presentation.