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George Lyman Kittredge
1860–1941
A legendary Harvard scholar who helped shape modern reading of Shakespeare, Chaucer, and traditional English ballads. His teaching and criticism were known for combining deep learning with unusual clarity and energy.
2 Audiobooks
An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises
by George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley
Notes on witchcraft
by George Lyman Kittredge
About the author
Born in Boston in 1860, George Lyman Kittredge became one of the best-known American literary scholars of his era. He spent most of his career at Harvard University, where he taught English literature and built a formidable reputation as a philologist, folklorist, and classroom lecturer.
Kittredge was especially influential in the study of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Sir Thomas Malory, and English ballad tradition. Reference sources describe him as one of the foremost authorities of his time, and his scholarly editions of Shakespeare were widely used in the early twentieth century.
He died in 1941, but his work continued to shape literary study long afterward. Readers still meet his name through classic editions, studies of medieval and Renaissance literature, and writings that helped bring older English texts to a broader modern audience.