W. V. Clausen

Wendell Vernon Clausen was an American classicist, who specialized in the poetry of Vergil. After undergraduate studies in English and Latin at the University of Washington, he took a PhD in classics from the University of Chicago in 1948, and moved to teach classics at Amherst College in Massachusetts. From 1959 until his retirement in 1993, he taught Greek, Latin, and later comparative literature at Harvard University.