Gummere, Francis Barton, 1855-1919
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Name (Latin)
Gummere, Francis Barton, 1855-1919
Other forms of name
Gummere, Francis, 1855-1919
Date of birth
1855-03-06
Date of death
1919-05-30
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Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Beowulf [SR]:cover frame (by an anonymous author; translated by Francis Gummere)
- Wikipedia website, Sept. 18, 2024(Francis Barton Gummere; Prof. of English; scholar of folklore and ancient languages; translator; works: The Anglo-Saxon Metaphor, Germanic Origins, Old English Ballads, The Beginnings of Poetry, The Popular Ballad, Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning, The Oldest English Epic, Democracy and Poetry)
- Author's A handbook of poetics, 1885.
Wikipedia description:
Francis Barton Gummere (March 6, 1855, Burlington, New Jersey – May 30, 1919, Haverford, Pennsylvania) was a Professor of English, an influential scholar of folklore and ancient languages, and a student of Francis James Child. He was an elected member of both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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