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Monroe Spears, a critic, teacher and poet, died May 23 at the Southern Tennessee Medical Center in Winchester, Tenn. He was 82 and lived in Sewanee, Tenn.
Mr. Spears, a prolific critic, wrote regularly for many periodicals, including The New York Review of Books. He was considered an authority on modern British and American poets and was the author of several books including “The Poetry of W.H. Auden: The Disenchanted Island.”
He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt University and the University of the South, in Sewanee, where he edited The Sewanee Review. In 1964 he became Moody professor of English at Rice University in Houston, where he taught until his retirement in 1986.
