Thomas Parkinson

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Thomas F. Parkinson (1920–1992) was an American poet and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He specialized in the poetry of W. B. Yeats, and was one of the first academics to write about the Beat poets and novelists of San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s.

Parkinson was also a political activist for much of his life. He survived an assassination attempt in 1961 by a former student who sought to "get someone who was associated with Communism." Provided by Wikipedia