Author. He was a prolific English author as well as a historian and literary critic. He was the author of a large number of works on English and European literature, including a "Short History of English Literature," "Elizabethan Literature," and "A History of Criticism." He also wrote several biographies, including books on Sir Walter Scott and Matthew Arnold. After receiving an education at Oxford, he taught school first in Manchester, then six years in Guernsey as the senior classical master of Elizabeth College. While at Guernsey, he began submitting his reviews to various newspapers and magazines. With a life-long study, he wrote on the history of French literature, which made him the most prominent English authority on the subject. He became Regius chair of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Edinburgh, a position he held from 1895 until his retirement in 1915. He wrote a three-volume text, "Minor Poets of the Caroline Period" in 1921. He arranged for the publication of a lost recipe book by Anne Blencoe, which had been rediscovered in Weston Hall 200 years after her death. Before publishing the recipe book in 1925, he wrote a short introduction.
Author. He was a prolific English author as well as a historian and literary critic. He was the author of a large number of works on English and European literature, including a "Short History of English Literature," "Elizabethan Literature," and "A History of Criticism." He also wrote several biographies, including books on Sir Walter Scott and Matthew Arnold. After receiving an education at Oxford, he taught school first in Manchester, then six years in Guernsey as the senior classical master of Elizabeth College. While at Guernsey, he began submitting his reviews to various newspapers and magazines. With a life-long study, he wrote on the history of French literature, which made him the most prominent English authority on the subject. He became Regius chair of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Edinburgh, a position he held from 1895 until his retirement in 1915. He wrote a three-volume text, "Minor Poets of the Caroline Period" in 1921. He arranged for the publication of a lost recipe book by Anne Blencoe, which had been rediscovered in Weston Hall 200 years after her death. Before publishing the recipe book in 1925, he wrote a short introduction.
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