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Born February 28, 1860 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died July 23, 1941 (aged 81) • Barnstable • Massachusetts
Notable Works “Chaucer and His Poetry”
Subjects Of Study Middle English literature • Geoffrey Chaucer
A.J.M. Smith
Canadian poet and anthologist
Edmund Clarence Stedman
American writer
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Robert Burns
Robert Burns
Scottish poet
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
British poet
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Elio Vittorini
Italian author
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Es’kia Mphahlele
South African writer
Sir Leslie Stephen
British critic
Arthur Symons, tempera painting by R.H. Sauter, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Arthur Symons
English poet and critic
William Bowles, engraving by Thomson, first quarter of the 19th century, after a painting by Mullar
William Lisle Bowles
British poet and clergyman
Andrew Lang
British scholar
Quiller-Couch, 1943
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British writer
Furnivall, pencil sketch by Charles Haslewood Shannon, c. 1911; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Frederick James Furnivall
British scholar
Charles Clarke, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Charles Cowden Clarke
English editor and critic
Philip Toynbee
British writer
Bernhard ten Brink
German scholar