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Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
to 1830, studying with Welcker, and with both Hermann and Boeckh. In 1830 he was present at the Literary Convention held in New York, which was the first important American assemblage of professional educators, and was associated with the founding of New York University. Woolsey and others—among them, Francis Lieber—addressed the convention in defence of liberal studies. At Yale he was professor of Greek from 1831 to 1846, and president from 1846 till he resigned in 1871. He edited the Alcestis (1834), the Antigone, and the Electra (1835-37), the Prometheus (1837), and the Gorgias (1842). Like Felton, Woolsey did not train professional philologists, but did much to induct American youth into a liberal education. He exhibits the Yale sobriety and lucidity that is characteristic of his uncle, Timothy Dwight, and of his younger contemporaries, James Hadley and William Dwight Whitney; and like Lieber and Hadley he turned from the classics to political science and law. Others of th
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Capen Adams of California, the, 153 Adventures in Patagonia, 155 Adventures in the wilderness, 163 Adventures in Zuñi, 159 Aeschylus, 460 Aesop, 634 After the ball, 513 After the War, 352 Against Midias, 465 Agamemnon, 460, 465 Agassiz, Louis, 112, 209, 250, 251, 416 Aids to reflection, 228 Aiken, Albert W., 66 Aitken, Robert, 535, 536 Akers, Elizabeth, 312 Alabama, 283 Alaska, 167 Alaska and the Klondike, 167 Alaska, 1899, 166 Albee, 264 n. Alcestis, 461 Alcott, A. Bronson, 403, 404, 415, 525, 527, 528, 529, 532 Alcott, Louisa M., 404 Alden, H. M., 309, 312 Aldrich, T. B., 5, 7, 31, 34-38, 40, 41, 43, 44, 86, 267, 307, 419, 581 Alemannische Gedichte, 585 Alexandria (Theological Seminary), 219 Alfieri, 450, 460 Alice of Old Vincennes, 91 Aliens, 420 Allen, A. V. G., 220, 222 Allen, Ethan, 66 Allen, F. DeF., 462, 464 Allen, F. Sturges, 478 Allen, Henry T., 166 Allen, James Lane, 91, 95 Allen, Joseph Hen