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See also: American See also: scholar, was See also: born on the 6th of See also: March 1853 in Montville,
See also: Morris county, New See also: Jersey
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He graduated at Rutgers See also: College in 1872, and also studied at See also: Gottingen and See also: Leipzig (1877–1878), and, after spending the years 1899–1881 as associate in See also: English at Johns See also: Hopkins University, in See also: London, and under Sievers at See also: Jena, he became in 1882 professor of English in the University of California, and in 1889 professor of English language and literature in Yale University
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He re-organized the teaching of English in the See also: state of California, and edited many texts for See also: reading in secondary See also: schools; but he is best known for his See also: work in Old English and in poetics
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He translated, edited, and revised Sievers' Old English Grammar (1885), edited See also: Judith (1888), The Christ of See also: Cynewulf (1900), Asser's See also: Life of See also: King
See also: Alfred (1905), and The Dream of the Rood (1905), and prepared A First See also: Book in Old English Grammar (1894)
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He also edited, with annotations, See also: Sidney's Defense of Poesie (189o) ; Shelley's Defense of See also: Poetry (1891); Newman's Poetry (1891); See also: Addison's Criticisms on See also: Paradise Lost (1892); The See also: Art of Poetry (1892), being the essays of Horace, See also: Vida and Boileau; and See also: Leigh See also: Hunt's What is Poetry (1893); and published Higher Study of English (1906)
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