In Europe for a year, he studied S. T. Coleridge, returning to a position at the University of Minnesota.
His scholarly views led him to value solely textual research on major authors, and he clashed with Louise Pound of the university over a study of Helen Hunt Jackson, by Ruth Odell.
[5] Regarded as an Anglophile, he attacked in 1941 the isolationism of the America First Committee, and with others petitioned the federal government on assistance for the United Kingdom.
[6] Raysor's papers are held by the library of the University of California Santa Barbara.
[7] Raysor married Ellen Devereux Koopman, at Cohasset, Massachusetts on July 5, 1923; they had two daughters.