Geoffrey Hartman, Sterling Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale, was born in Germany in 1929, and sent to England as an unaccompanied child refugee in 1939, moving to America in 1946. His work in Literary Criticism and Theory includes The Unmediated Vision: An Interpretation of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Rilke and Valéry (1954); Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814 (1964), which was the most influential single volume on Wordsworth published in the 20th Century; Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958-1970 (1970); The Fate of Reading and Other Essays (1975); Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today (1980); Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy (1981); an indispensable collection of essays entitled The Unremarkable Wordsworth (1987); The Fateful Question of Culture (1997); Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity (2004); and A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe (2007). The value judgements in this note are those of the editors.