Henry Seidel Canby

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Henry Seidel Canby

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According to Wikipedia, Henry Seidel Canby was a critic, editor, and Yale University professor. A scion of a Quaker family that arrived in Wilmington, Delaware, around 1740 and grew to regional prominence through milling and business affairs, Henry Seidel Canby was a son of Edward T. Canby. Canby was born in Wilmington, and attended Wilmington Friends School. He graduated from Yale in 1899, then taught at the university until becoming a professor in 1922.

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Henry Seidel Canby's Published Works

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Literary History of the United States (1949) (109)
The Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1962) (22)
Contemporary American authors (15)
The works of Thoreau (1938) (13)
The American reader (1941) (9)
Definitions : essays in contemporary criticism (6)
The reinterpretation of American literature (5)
The English Fabliau (5)
Classic Americans: A Study of Eminent American Writers from Irving to Whitman (1932) (5)
Turn west, turn east: Mark Twain and Henry James (1951) (5)
Walt Whitman, an American;: A study in biography (1970) (4)
A Study Of The Short Story (2)
Some Comments on the Sources of Chaucer's "Pardoner's Tale" (1905) (2)
Seven years' harvest : notes on contemporary literature (1936) (2)
The mechanics of composition (1)
THE RIVER OF YOUTH (1953) (1)
Favorite poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1947) (1)
The age of confidence : life in the nineties (1934) (1)
Walt Whitman: An American. (1944) (1)
College Sons And College Fathers (1)
Classic Americans : a study of eminent American writers from Irving to Whitman, with an introductory survey of the colonial background of our national literature (1932) (1)
Applying good English (1942) (0)
The elements of composition (0)
Prodding the Nobel Prize Committee (1932) (0)
The executive's desk book : a practical manual of correct usage in business, official, and social activities : including "The Winston simplified dictionary" (1934) (0)
Mr. Lamont's "Hundred Best Novels": Some American Reactions (1947) (0)
What Is "English"? (1920) (0)
The Status of American Criticism (1924) (0)
Astudy Of Short Story (0)
Women Playwrights: A Symposium (1948) (0)
Belles-Letters: Alma Mater: The Gothic Age of the American College (1936) (0)
The pocket book of Erskine Caldwell stories : 31 of the most famous short stories by the author of Tobacco road (1947) (0)
Sermons in Stones (1951) (0)
Within the tides : tales . Tales of unrest (0)
Extending good English (1944) (0)
Congeeve as a Romanticist (0)
Handbook of English usage (1942) (0)
Stories by Erskine Caldwell : twenty-for representative stories (1944) (0)
Mastering good English (1943) (0)
The Canby-Opdycke-Gillum Series (1945) (0)
Fifth Session, Friday, December 29 (0)
The Winston Simplified Dictionary, Advanced Edition (1927) (0)
The Winston dictionary (1942) (0)
Congreve as a Romanticist (0)
Walt Whitman, ein Amerikaner (1943) (0)
A New Land Speaking. An Essay on the Importance of a National Literature (1946) (0)
The short story (0)
A Call for Aristotle (1936) (0)
An Original Interpretation of the American College (1936) (0)
"The World's Worst Book": A Symposium (1941) (0)
A New Language Series (1936) (0)
SELECTIONS FROM THE EXODUS (1935) (0)
Dr. Canby Recasts a Phrase (1947) (0)

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Yale University