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Kenneth Burke

Kenneth Burke

American poet and essayist
Kenneth Duva Burke was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory. As a literary theorist, Burke was best known for his analyses based... Wikipedia
Born: May 5, 1897, Pittsburgh, PA
Died: November 19, 1993 (age 96 years), Andover, NJ
Education: Columbia University (1917–1918), The Ohio State University (1916–1917), and Peabody High School
Children: Eleanor Leacock
Spouse: Lily Burke (m. 1919)