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ALBERT STANBURROUGH COOK (1853– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 71 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALBERT STANBURROUGH See also:COOK (1853– )  , See also:American See also:scholar, was See also:born on the 6th of See also:March 1853 in Montville, See also:Morris See also:county, New See also:Jersey . 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 See also: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 See also:professor of English in the University of See also:California, and in 1889 professor of English See also:language and literature in Yale University . 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 . He translated, edited, and revised Sievers' Old English See also:Grammar (1885), edited See also:Judith (1888), The See also:Christ of See also:Cynewulf (1900), See also:Asser's See also:Life of See also:King See also:Alfred (1905), and The See also:Dream of the See also:Rood (1905), and prepared A First See also:Book in Old English Grammar (1894) . He also edited, with annotations, See also:Sidney's Defense of Poesie (189o) ; See also:Shelley's Defense of See also:Poetry (1891); See also: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 See also: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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