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Woodberry, George Edward, 1855-1930We have 2 books for this author.George Edward Woodberry, Litt. D., LL. D. (1855-1930) was an American literary critic and poet, born in Beverly, Mass. He graduated from Harvard in 1877, and became professor of English at the University of Nebraska. In 1891-1904 he was professor of comparative literature at Columbia University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1930 he was posthumously awarded one of the first three Frost Medals for lifetime achievement in poetry by the Poetry Society of America. He wrote a number of books:
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He edited The complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1892); Lamb's Essays of Elia (1892); The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, with E. C. Stedman (1894); and Select Poems of Aubrey de Vere (1894). He wrote compositions in the "National Studies in American Letters," and Columbia University Studies in Comparative Literature, (nine volumes). Quotes"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." [1] "The sense that someone else cares always helps, because it is the sense of love" [2] ReferencesExternal links
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