Person

Mathews, Jackson

1907–1978

Married to Marthiel Duke Mathews. Teaching career: Posts at Harvard, Princeton, Universities of Georgia and Oregon. University of Washington (1949-1955): he established the Department of Comparative Literature. Editor for Bollingen Foundation publications, starting in 1953, 1957 position of vice-president with the Foundation. Much of Mathews's work involved French and Belgian literature, with the group of writers called "des Symbolists". He translated works of Baudelaire, Gide, Perse, Char, and Yves Bonnefoy. The work of Paul Valery was his primary interest (general editor of the Bollingen Foundation's 15-volume Complete Works of Paul Valery)