A Bibliography Of Sir Adolphus William Ward 1837 1924

Author : Adolphus William Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781409906797
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (67 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Chaucer written by Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Adolphus William Ward (1837-1924) was an English historian and man of letters. He was born at Hampstead, London, and was educated in Germany and at the University of Cambridge. In 1866 he was appointed professor of history and English literature in Owens College, Manchester, and was principal from 1890 to 1897, when he retired. In 1898, Ward delivered the Ford Lectures at Oxford University. His most important work is his standard History of English Dramatic Literature to the Age of Queen Anne (1875), re-edited after a thorough revision in three volumes in 1899. He also wrote The House of Austria in the Thirty Years' War (1869), Great Britain and Hanover (1899), The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession (1903); he edited George Crabbe's Poems (2 vols., 1905-1906) and Alexander Pope's Poetical Works (1869); he wrote the volumes on Geoffrey Chaucer and Charles Dickens in the English Men of Letters series, translated Ernst Curtius's History of Greece (5 vols., 1868-1873); he was one of the editors of the Cambridge Modern History, and with A. R. Waller edited the Cambridge History of English Literature (1907, etc. ).