Pottle

Abrams and Frederick Albert Pottle and William Clyde Devane were, in their very different way, very wise men.

A Conversation with Harold Bloom author of How To Read and Why 2010

He was too busy running Yale College to give me much direct instruction, but he took a great interest in me, defended me against my Yale enemies, as Professor Pottle did, and I had plenty of enemies, some of whom I no doubt deserved and some of whom I didn't deserve.

A Conversation with Harold Bloom author of How To Read and Why 2010

Then when I became a graduate student at Yale, I was much under the influence of Frederick A. Pottle, who was a Johnson and Boswell scholar and a Romantic scholar, and is remembered best now for writing a large two-volume definitive biography of James Boswell and for his work on the Boswell papers.

A Conversation with Harold Bloom author of How To Read and Why 2010

Note 124: Ralph R. Pottle to Schary, November 29, 1947, in Schary Papers, B100-F2, WHS. back

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

In contrast, Ralph R. Pottle, head of the Department of Fine Arts at Southeastern Louisiana College, wrote to congratulate Schary personally on the firing of Scott and Dmytryk.

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

In 1979, Pottle published Dawn without light, an account of his time as a commissioner and later cabinet minister.

Dawn without light Ed Hollett 2007

Educated at Mount Allison and the University of Toronto, Pottle was an official of the Department of Education under the Newfoundland commission government from 1938 until 1947. in that year, he was appointed as one of three Newfoundland members of the commission.

Dawn without light Ed Hollett 2007

Pottle remembers it as a time of patronage and power; moral and fiscal responsibility seemed to be lacking, and there was a division between "promises and performance" and "words and works."

Dawn without light Ed Hollett 2007

Pottle was appointed to cabinet in 1949 as minister of public welfare.

Dawn without light Ed Hollett 2007

In 1963, Pottle began work for the Department of Health and Welfare.

Dawn without light Ed Hollett 2007