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Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943

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William Lyon Phelps (2 January 1865 - 21 August 1943) was an American author, critic and scholar. Phelps gained a B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University and an M.A. from Harvard University, where he went on to teach for just one year before returning to Yale to hold a position in the English department for 41 years. From 1941 to 1943 he was the director of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.

His works include;

  • Essays on Modern Novelists (1910),
  • Advance of the English Novel (1916),
  • Essays on Modern Dramatists (1921-1922),
  • As I Like It (1923),
  • Autobiography with Letters (1939),
  • Marriage (1940).

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Books

The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century
Essays on Russian Novelists
Robert Browning: How to Know Him
Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

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