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Percy Holmes Boynton (1875–1946)

Author of American Poetry

12 Works 37 Members 2 Reviews

About the Author

Includes the names: Percy Boynton, Percy H. Boynton

Works by Percy Holmes Boynton

American Poetry (1918) 8 copies

LONDON IN ENGLISH LITERATURE (1914) 7 copies

Milestones in American literature (1923) 5 copies

A History of American Literature (1970) 3 copies

Principles of Composition (2016) 3 copies

The rediscovery of the frontier (1970) 2 copies

More Contemporary Americans (2013) 2 copies

Literature and American life, for students of American literature (1936) 2 copies

Some contemporary Americans; the personal equation in literature (1925) 2 copies

...The challenge of modern criticism; tradition--criticism--humanism 1 copy

America in contemporary fiction (1940) 1 copy

American Literature 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1875-10-30
Date of death: 1946-07-08
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Places of residence: Newark, New Jersey, USA (birth)
Education: Amherst University (A.B., 1897)
Harvard University (A.M., 1898)
Amherst University (D. Litt., 1939)
Occupations: Professor of English (University of Chicago, 1903-1941)
Organizations: Modern Language Association
American Association of University Professors

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Reviews

Milestones in American literature by Percy Holmes Boynton

A good representative collection from William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to Vachel Lindsey and Amy Lowell

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antiquary | Nov 27, 2011 |

LONDON IN ENGLISH LITERATURE by PERCY H. BOYNTON

descriptons of London by authors --Chaucer's London, Shakespeare's london etc, down through to "contemporary" London as of 1914

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antiquary | Sep 2, 2011 |

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Statistics

Works: 12
Members: 37
Popularity: #390,572
Rating: 4.0

Reviews: 2
ISBNs: 12

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Boynton Papers, Univ. of Chicago

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