D. W. Robertson Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

D. W. Robertson Jr.

American academic

Date of Birth: 11-Oct-1914

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Date of Death: 26-Jul-1992

Profession: poet, journalist, literary critic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Durant Waite Robertson Jr.
(Washington, D.C.
October 11, 1914 – Chapel Hill, North Carolina, July 26, 1992) was a scholar of medieval English literature and especially Geoffrey Chaucer.
He taught at Princeton University from 1946 until his retirement in 1980 as the Murray Professor of English, and was "widely regarded as this [the twentieth] century's most influential Chaucer scholar".