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Thomas F. Parkinson (1920–1992) was an American poet and Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He specialized in the poetry of W. B. Yeats; and was one of the first academics to write about the Beat poets and novelists of San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s.

Parkinson was also a political activist for much of his life and survived an assassination attempt in 1961 by a former student who sought to "get someone who was associated with Communism." Provided by Wikipedia