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George Lyman Kittredge
Born February 28, 1860
Boston, Massachusetts
Died July 23, 1941
Occupation English professor, folklorist

George Lyman Kittredge (February 28, 1860–July 23, 1941) was a scholar of English literature and a professor at Harvard University. Events 202 BC - coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty 's rule Year 1860 ( MDCCLX) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year starting Events 1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe France. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The term English literature refers to Literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by Writers not necessarily from Between his position at Harvard and his editions of major literary figures, notably William Shakespeare, he was one of the most influential American literary critics of the early 20th century. William Shakespeare ( baptised Literary criticism is the study discussion evaluation and interpretation of Literature.

Kittredge was born in Boston and studied at The Roxbury Latin School and later Harvard with Francis James Child, whose work on ballads and folk poems Kittredge took over and expanded into American folklore. Roxbury Latin School is the oldest school in North America in continuous existence Francis James Child ( February 1, 1825 &ndash September 11, 1896) was an American scholar educationist and folklorist, A ballad is a Poem usually set to Music; thus it often is a story told in a Song. History The concept of folklore developed as part of the 19th century ideology of Romantic nationalism, leading to the reshaping of oral traditions to serve modern ideological After teaching Latin at Phillips Exeter Academy, he returned to Harvard to teach Renaissance literature and particularly Shakespeare. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Phillips Exeter Academy (also called Exeter, Phillips Exeter or PEA) is a Co-educational independent Boarding school for grades 9–12 The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the early 16th century to the early 17th century His teaching methods were controversial; attempting to renew interest in philology, Kittredge taught Shakespeare's plays to undergraduate students extremely slowly and with great attention to detail. See Comparative linguistics for the narrower field of "comparative philology" Many outside Harvard considered him something of a pedant; an infamous profile in The Nation in 1913 reinforced that conception. This article is about the US Publication. For other newspapers magazines and alternate uses by the same name see The Nation (disambiguation. His students and colleagues defended him vigorously, however. One former student, Elizabeth Jackson, writes of Kittredge's sheer enthusiasm for the texts:

Kittredge taught Shakespeare as though every single human being could go on reading Shakespeare through time and eternity, going from strength to strength and rejoicing as a strong man to join a race. (486)

He was named Gurney Professor of English at Harvard in 1917. His students include the folklorist James Madison Carpenter. James Madison Carpenter, born in Blacklands Mississippi (near Booneville) in 1888

Kittredge's edition of Shakespeare was the standard well beyond his death, and continues to be cited occasionally by critics. He was also perhaps the leading critic of Geoffrey Chaucer of his time, and the central idea of the "marriage group" in the Canterbury Tales originated with him. Geoffrey Chaucer (c 1343 – 25 October 1400? was an English author poet Philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and Diplomat. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in Prose, the rest in verse) He is considered largely responsible for the introduction of Chaucer as a standard part of the college English curriculum. His work on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was influential as well. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century As a critic he was prolific and versatile; he continued Child's work gathering folk tales and songs, wrote on New England witch trials and witches in folklore, and also wrote or edited introductory texts in English grammar and Latin. History The concept of folklore developed as part of the 19th century ideology of Romantic nationalism, leading to the reshaping of oral traditions to serve modern ideological Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous History See also History of New England New England's earliest inhabitants were Algonquian -speaking Native Americans including the

It is said that Kittredge never got a doctorate, and when asked why not, he replied [1], "But who would examine me?"

Burdened with no illusions about his erudition, or the lack of it in others, he famously remarked, "There are three persons who know what the word 'Victorian' means, and the other two are dead. "

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