Oliver Farrar Emerson
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Oliver Farrar Emerson was a United States educator and philologist noted for Chaucer scholarship and his History of the English Language. Biography Emerson was born in Traer, Iowa, on May 24, 1860. He studied at Iowa College, taking a post graduate course at Cornell University, where he received the degree of D.Ph. in 1891. After serving as superintendent of schools in Grinnell and Muscatine, Iowa, he was principal of the Academy of Iowa College , instructor in English Cornell University and assistant professor of rhetoric and English philology in the same institution , when he took the same chair at Adelbert College of Western Reserve University. He became Oviatt Professor of English at Case Western in 1906, and was head of the English department.
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- Legends of Cain, Especially in Old and Middle English (35)
- Webster's International Dictionary. (8)
- ORIGINALITY IN OLD ENGLISH POETRY (5)
- More Notes on Pearl (1927) (4)
- Some Notes on the Pearl (1922) (4)
- Imperfect Lines in "Pearl" and the Rimed Parts of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (1921) (4)
- A brief history of the English language (4)
- Middle English Clannesse (3)
- V.—A Parallel between the Middle English Poem Patience and an Early Latin Poem Attributed to Tertullian (2)
- Grendel's Motive in Attacking Heorot (1921) (2)
- XIX. Notes on Gilbert Imlay, Early American Writer (1924) (2)
- The Suitors in Chaucer's "Parlement of Foules" (1910) (2)
- The Punctuation of "Beowulf" and Literary Interpretation (1926) (2)
- Chaucer's "Opie of Thebes Fyn" (1919) (1)
- Spenser, Lady Carey, and the Complaints Volume (1)
- A Middle English Reader (1)
- THE TEXT OF JOHNSON’S RASSELAS. (1)
- The Chairman's Address: The American Scholar and the Modern Languages (1)
- "At-after" and "Iraland" (1917) (1)
- The Legend of Joseph's Bones in Old and Middle English. (1899) (1)
- Two Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1921) (1)
- "Monk" Lewis and the Tales of Terror (1923) (1)
- A Note on the M. E. "Cleanness" (1915) (1)
- The Etymology of English tote. (0)
- Professor Lewis's Rejoinder. (1901) (0)
- Notes on Old English (1923) (0)
- On a Passage in the Peterborough Chronicle. (1892) (0)
- XIII. Saint Ambrose and Chaucer's Life of St. Cecilia (1926) (0)
- The Suitors in the Parlement of Foules Again (1911) (0)
- Chaucer's Testimony as to His Age (1913) (0)
- A New Word in an Old Poet (1917) (0)
- The Foundation of Rhetoric. Adams Sherman Hill (0)
- The Work of the American Dialect Society (0)
- A New Word and a New Meaning (1926) (0)
- The New Chaucer Item (1911) (0)
- Book Review:Growth and Structure of the English Language Otto Jespersen (1906) (0)
- Book Review:Progress in Language with Special Reference to English Otto Jespersen (0)
- English Pronunciation. The " Guide to Pronunciation " Again. (1892) (0)
- Book Review: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon (1899) (0)
- More Notes on Patience (0)
- "Iraland" (Alfred's "Orosius," I, 1) (1916) (0)
- Two Lexical Notes (1927) (0)
- A New Chaucer Item. (0)
- Two Notes on Patience (1914) (0)
- The Doctrine of Bilingualism Again. (1894) (0)
- Book Review:Studies in the Evolution of English Criticism Laura Johnson Wylie (1895) (0)
- The Battle of the Books (1924) (0)
- Browning's Diction: A Study of 'The Ring and the Book.' (1889) (0)
- New Publications (1876) (0)
- Henry L. Savage, ed., St Erkenwald, A Middle English Poem (Yale Studies in English, LXXII), New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926. Pp. lxxix + 92. (1927) (0)
- Some of Chaucer's Lines on the Monk (1903) (0)
- The Crux in the Peterborough Chronicle (1926) (0)
- The Development of Blank Verse.-A Study of Surrey. (0)
- Mead-Meadow, Shade-Shadow, a Study in Analogy (1920) (0)
- The Teaching of English Grammar (1897) (0)
- The Date of Adam Davy's "Dreams" (1926) (0)
- THE SHEPHERD’S STAR IN ENGLISH POFTRY. (0)
- XII.—Spenser, Lady Carey, and the Complaints Volume (0)
- Book Review:The Inflections and Syntax of the Morte D'Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory Charles Sears Baldwin (0)
- A Short Historical English Grammar. Henry SweetHistorical Outlines of English Syntax. Leon Kellner (1893) (0)
- The English Religious Drama. Katherine Lee Bates (1894) (0)
- Book Review:English Words: An Elementary Study of Derivations Charles F. Johnson (1893) (0)
- The West Midland Prose Psalter 90:10 (1918) (0)
- Sweet's Phonetics and American English. (1890) (0)
- The Gospel of Luke in Anglo-Saxon. (1894) (0)
- Milton's Comus, 93-94 (0)
- "Treson" in the Chronicle Again (1917) (0)
- Transverse Alliteration Again. (1901) (0)
- Dryden and the English Academy (1925) (0)
- Elementary Composition and Rhetoric. William Edward Mead (1895) (0)
- Book Review:History of English Literature, Vol. II, Part 1 Bernhard Ten Brink, Wm. Clarke Robinson (1893) (0)
- MLA volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1922) (0)
- An English Grammar. Sara E. H. Lockwood (0)
- Book Review:Chronological Outlines of American Literature Selden L. Whitcomb (1895) (0)
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