Coffin, Tristram Potter, 1922-2012
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Name (Latin)
Coffin, Tristram Potter, 1922-2012
Other forms of name
Coffin, Tristram Potter, 1922-
Date of birth
1922-02-13
Date of death
2012-01-31
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- New York times WWW site, Feb. 14, 2012(in obituary published Feb. 13: Tristram P. Coffin; b. Tristram Potter Coffin, Feb. 13, 1922, San Marino, Calif.; d. Jan. 31, Wakefield, R.I., aged 89; folklorist who unearthed worlds of meaning in the ordinary rituals of which nearly every American partakes, including holidays, baseball, and sex)
- His The British traditional ballad in North America, 1950.
- Folklore in America, 1986, c1966:CIP t.p. (Tristram P. Coffin)
Wikipedia description:
Tristram Potter Coffin (February 13, 1922 – January 31, 2012) was an American folklorist and leading scholar of ballad texts in the 20th century. Coffin spent the bulk of his career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a professor of English and a co-founder of the Folklore Department. He was the author of 20 books and more than 100 scholarly articles and reviews.
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