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| If any one finds himself disliking something in which cultivated men of all periods have taken delight…, the chances are that his own poor estimate of such work is due to a defect in himself and not in the poetry he undervalues. |
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| Thomas Lounsbury |
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| (Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury) 1838–1915, U.S. linguist and educator, b. Ovid, New York. The first American scholar to introduce English Literature and the history of the English language as a distinct course of study in American institutes of higher education, Lounsbury was also a groundbreaking American literary historian and critic, especially known for his insightful works on Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and James Fenimore Cooper. |
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- Yale Book of American Verse
With his passion for the study of literary history and the American language, Lounsbury proves to be the ideal editor for this all-inclusive collection of American verse through 1912.
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