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Kittredge, George Lyman
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| (1860–1941)
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| biography:
| Philologist, Shakespeare scholar, and educator, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He became inextricably identified with Harvard, where he was educated and later taught (1888–1936). At Harvard ‘Kitty’ inaugurated the study of English romance literature and taught English 2 (1896–1936), his famous course on Shakespeare. He was an international authority on Beowulf, Chaucer, and particularly Shakespeare. His seminal Chaucer and his Poetry (1915) laid the foundation for American Chaucer studies. |
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