Gordon Sherman Haight
Gordon S. Haight, from the 1923 yearbook of Yale University
Born	February 6, 1901 Muskegon, Michigan, US
Died	December 28, 1985(1985-12-28) (aged 84) Woodbridge, Connecticut, US
Academic background
Alma mater	Yale University
Academic work
Discipline	English literature
Institutions	Yale University
Notable works	George Eliot: A Biography

Gordon Sherman Haight (February 6, 1901 – December 28, 1985) was an American professor of English atYale University from 1950 to 1968. He was the author ofGeorge Eliot: A Biography (1968) and the editor ofThe George Eliot Letters (1954–1955).

Haight was born inMuskegon, Michigan, the son of Lewis Pease Haight and Grace Carpenter Haight.^[1] He graduated from Yale University in 1923, and earned his Ph.D. there in 1933, with a dissertation on English poetFrancis Quarles.^[2][3]

Haight taught at theKent School and theHotchkiss School as a young man.^[4] He taught English at Yale University beginning in 1933,^[5] was master ofPierson College from 1949 to 1953, and was a full professor from 1950 to 1968. He was recognized as an expert on author George Eliot.^[6] His biography of George Eliot won the Van Wyck Brooks Memorial Award andJames Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 1980, he was invited to give the dedication speech when a memorial stone for Eliot was placed in Westminster Abbey'sPoets' Corner.^[2]

Haight married Mary Nettleton in 1937. He died at home inWoodbridge, Connecticut, in December 1985, at the age of 84.^[2][7]

• "Longfellow andMrs. Sigourney" (1930)^[8]
• Mrs. Sigourney, The Sweet Singer of Hartford (1930)^[9]
• "The Publication of Quarles'Emblems" (1934)^[10]
• "The Sources of Quarles'Emblems" (1935)^[11]
• "Francis Quarles in the Civil War" (1936)^[12]
• "TheJohn William De Forest Collection" (1940)^[13]
• "Cross's Biography of George Eliot" (1950)^[14]
• "Dickens andLewes onSpontaneous Combustion" (1958)^[15]
• "George Meredith and theWestminster Review" (1958)^[16]
• "H. G. Wells'The Man of the Year Million" (1958)^[17]
• Adam Bede (1964, introduction)^[18]
• George Eliot: A Biography (1968)^[19]
• George Eliot's Originals and Contemporaries: Essays in Victorian Literary History and Biography (1992, published posthumously)^[20]

• Edward FitzGerald and theRubaiyat (1942)
• Francis Bacon,Essays and New Atlantis (1942)
• The George Eliot Letters, 7 vols. (1954–55)^[21]
• George Eliot,The Mill on the Floss
• A century of George Eliot criticism (1965)
• George Eliot &John Chapman, with Chapman's Diaries (1969; first edition 1940)
• George Eliot: A Centenary Tribute (1982, with Rosemary T. VanArsdel)^[22]

• George Eliot-G. H. Lewes Newsletter (8) April 1986; Memorial Issue for Gordon S. Haight (1901–1985). Contains tributes to Gordon S. Haight by Rosemary Ashton, William Baker, Gillian Beer, David Carroll, Joseph Wiesenfarth, Hugh Witemeyer, and Terence R. Wright.

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