Caleb Thomas Winchester

Caleb Thomas Winchester

Caleb Thomas Winchester (January 18, 1847 – March 24, 1920^[1]) was an American English scholar.

Biography

He was born in Montville, Connecticut. He prepared for college at Wilbraham Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts.^[1] He then attended Wesleyan University, where he graduated in 1869. He remained at Wesleyan, where he was librarian until 1873, professor of rhetoric and English literature until 1890, and simply professor of English literature after that. During 1880-81 he studied in Leipzig, Germany. He was noted for the quality of his lectures.

He married Julia Stackpole Smith in 1872. She died in 1877, and he married Alice Goodwin Smith in 1880.^[1]

Works

He wrote:

• Some Principles of Literary Criticism (1899)
• Life of John Wesley (1906)
• A Group of English Essayists (1910)
• Wordsworth — How to Know Him (1916)
• An Old Castle and other essays (1922)

Besides serving on the deliberative assembly which revised The Methodist Hymnal, he edited:

• Selected Essays of Joseph Addison (1886, 1890)
• Five Short Courses of Reading in English Literature (1892; third edition, revised, 1911)
• The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers (1904)
• Representative English Essays (1914)

Notes

1. William B. Tower, Jr (1936). "Winchester, Caleb Thomas". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Colby, F.; Williams, T., eds. (1916). "Winchester, Caleb Thomas". New International Encyclopedia (2nd ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
•  Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Winchester, Caleb Thomas". Encyclopedia Americana.

External links

• "Library Greats". Wesleyan University. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
• G. M. Dutcher, ed. (1921). A Memorial to Caleb Thomas Winchester. Wesleyan University.