W. Denham Sutcliffe (born in Bristol, Pennsylvania in 1913 - died in Gambier, Ohio on February 29, 1964) was an American writer, editor, and professor of English who spent most of his professional life at Kenyon College.
It tries to distinguish between the more and the less important, between the grand and the trivial, and to concern itself rather with the center than with the periphery.”[2] Sutcliffe attended Bates College and took his B.A., where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1938, he attended Hertford College, Oxford, where he took a second B.A., earning first-class honours.
He was serving as president of Education for Freedom, Inc., in New York City, when he was invited to join the Kenyon English Department in 1946.
[3] Among many other activities, he edited the letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson and wrote introductions to books, such as to Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.