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George Lyman Kittredge (1860–1941)

Author of Chaucer and His Poetry

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Works by George Lyman Kittredge

Chaucer and His Poetry (1915) 62 copies
English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Cambridge Edition of the Poets) (1904) — Editor — 53 copies
Witchcraft in Old and New England (1929) 40 copies
Virgil and Other Latin Poets (1923) — Editor — 37 copies
An Advanced English Grammar (1913) 28 copies
Select Orations of Cicero, Allen and Greenough’s Edition: Notes (English) (1890) — Editor — 27 copies
The Mother Tongue Book II ( Two 2 ) an Elementary English Grammar With Lessons in Composition (1900) 20 copies
The Mother Tongue: Adapted for Modern Students (2014) 19 copies
The old farmer and his almanack; being some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago (1904) 17 copies
The Mother Tongue Book 1 (1902) 14 copies
The Mother Tongue Student Workbook 1 (2014) 7 copies
Concise English Grammar With Exercises (1918) 6 copies
A study of Gawain and the Green Knight (2009) 4 copies
Virgil's Aeneid The First Six Books and the Completion of the Story and Ovid's Metamorphoses (1923) — Editor — 4 copies
Shakspere : an address (2009) 4 copies
Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses — Editor — 4 copies
The Kittredge Shakespears Richard II 3 copies
The Kittredge Shakespeares Measure for Measure (1967) 3 copies
Macbeth (1984) 3 copies
The Kittredge Shakespeares The Taming of the Shrew (1966) 2 copies
Shakspere An Address Delivered on April 23, 1916 in Sanders Theatre (1926) 2 copies
Notes on witchcraft (2009) 2 copies
Arthur and Gorlagon (Classic Reprint) (2017) 2 copies
The Tragedy Of Antony And Cleopatra (The Kittredge Shakespeare) 2 copies
The Kittredge Shakespeare Coriolanus 2 copies
The Kittredge Shakespears Henry IV, Part Two (1966) 1 copy
The Kittredge Shakespeares King Lear 1 copy
The Kittredge Shakespeare Coriolanus 1 copy
The Kittredge Shakespeares The Tempest 1 copy
"Letters of Samuel Lee [1690] and Samuel Sewall [1691] Relating to New England and the Indians," — Editor — 1 copy
The mother tongue (2011) 1 copy
Greenough, James Bradstreet 1 copy
New light on Romeo and Juliet, (1942) 1 copy
The Kittredge Shakespears Henry IV, Part Two 1 copy
The Kittredge Shakespears The Tragedy Titus Andronicus 1 copy
The Mother Tongue Student Workbook 2 (2015) 1 copy
Shakspere: an address, etc 1 copy
An Advanced English Grammer with Excercise (illustrated) (2015) 1 copy
Othello (The Kittredge Shakespeares) (1966) 1 copy
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth (Atheneum Press) 1 copy
Doctor Robert Child, the remonstrant 1 copy
The Kittredge Shakespeares King John (Revised By Irving Ribner) (1966) 1 copy
A Concise English Grammar with Exercises 1 copy
The Harvard Advocate Vol XXXII 1 copy
The Kittredge Shakespeares MacBeth 1 copy
The Kittredge Shakespears The Comedy of Errors (1966) 1 copy
The Kittredge Shakespears Henry IV, Part One (1969) 1 copy
Henry IV, Part one (The Kittredge Shakespears) 1 copy
The Kittredge Shakespears Timon of Athens (1967) 1 copy
The Harvard Advocate Vol. XXXI 1 copy
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Associated Works

Hamlet (1603) — Editor, some editions — 32,984 copies
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1589) — Editor, some editions — 31,877 copies
Romeo and Juliet (2011) — Editor, some editions — 28,708 copies
Macbeth (1606) — Editor, some editions — 26,230 copies
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1603) — Editor, some editions — 19,918 copies
Othello (1604) — Editor, some editions — 17,034 copies
King Lear (1608) — Editor, some editions — 15,135 copies
The Tempest (1610) — Editor, some editions — 13,858 copies
Julius Caesar (1623) — Editor, some editions — 12,520 copies
Twelfth Night (1601) — Editor, some editions — 10,828 copies
Henry V (1600) — Editor, some editions — 6,069 copies
Antony and Cleopatra (1623) — Editor, some editions — 5,522 copies
Henry IV, Part 1 (1598) — Editor, some editions — 5,077 copies
The Winter's Tale (1623) — Editor, some editions — 4,791 copies
Measure for Measure (1623) — Editor, some editions — 4,405 copies
Richard II (1597) — Editor, some editions — 4,194 copies
The Comedy of Errors (1623) — Editor, some editions — 3,378 copies
King John (1623) — Editor, some editions — 1,397 copies
Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar (1888) — Editor, some editions — 784 copies
The Canterbury Tales [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2005) — Contributor — 632 copies
Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach (1958) — Contributor — 211 copies
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 1 (1882) — Biographical note, some editions — 139 copies
The Kittredge-Players Edition of the Complete Works of Shakespeare (1958) — Editor, some editions — 42 copies
Words and Their Ways in English Speech (1918) — some editions — 32 copies
Sixteen Plays of Shakespeare (1946) — Editor — 10 copies
Five Plays of Shakespeare (1941) — Editor, some editions — 4 copies
The Metamorphoses Of Ovid Selections Required For Entrance To College In The Years 1926-1928 — Editor — 2 copies

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The Mother Tongue - Book II Elementary English Grammar by George Lyman Kittredge
Fascinating study of English grammar as it was taught at the turn of the last century. Much more comprehensive than nowadays, I assure you. The title says "Elementary" but this is intended for high school students.

I was struck by the obsolete phrases; ie in the section on subjunctive verbs, one of the example sentences is "I had as lief do it as not. Also, many examples in the same section (subjunctive) are from quite sophisticated literature and poetry sources.

Inscribed: "Elmer Louis Spray, Mound Valley School, Sept. 18, 1907"

Elmer is my grandfather. Oddly, September 18th is my birthday (although NOT 1907!!)… (more)
 
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