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Frank Edgar Farley
b. 1868
A longtime teacher of English literature, this early-20th-century scholar helped shape how students read grammar and classic poetry in the classroom. His books combine close literary study with a practical, school-ready approach to language.
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An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises
by George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley
About the author
Frank Edgar Farley was an American scholar and teacher born in 1868. He is best remembered for educational works on English language and literature, including An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises, written with Harvard scholar George Lyman Kittredge, and a school edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost, Books I and II.
Sources available here also identify him as a professor of English literature at Wesleyan University. Another of his notable works, Scandinavian Influences in the English Romantic Movement (1903), shows the range of his interests, from grammar and classroom texts to comparative literary study.
The surviving record in easily accessible sources is fairly sparse, but it suggests a writer deeply involved in teaching, editing, and explaining literature for students. His work belongs to a period when literary scholarship and classroom instruction were closely linked, and his books continued to circulate through libraries and digital archives long after his lifetime.