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Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941
Kittredge was born in Boston in 1860 and received his Harvard A.B. in 1882. He became Francis James Child's successor to the Harvard Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory and later was appointed Harvard's first Gurney Professor of English (1917). Kittredge was a noted authority on the English language, Shakespeare, and Chaucer, and he also continued scholarhip in the field pioneered by Child - the study of folklore and folk history.
From the description of George Lyman Kittredge additional papers on American songs and ballads, 1905-1937. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612364814
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