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Harry Morgan Ayres

Harry Morgan Ayres

American scholar (1881–1948)

Harry Morgan Ayres (October 6, 1881 – November 20, 1948) was a professor of English Literature at Columbia University[1] an author, and editor. He edited The Reader's Dictionary of Authors[2] including entries for Charles William Eliot, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, and George Moore and also contributed to the Library of the World's Best Literature.[3]

Ayres painted by Richard M. Brown in 1948

The English Journal Volume 13 described The Modern students book of English literature he compiled and wrote with Frederick Morgan Padelford and William David Howe as: "A brave effort to give something of every trope - even letters and a taste of modern critical and biographical prose." The description adds that the selection of early English material is "more adequate" than is usual.[4]

He defended General Dwight Eisenhower's appointment at Columbia pointing to the scholarly quality of his Guidhall speech in London.[5]

He wrote an essay on Modern American Tendencies for The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes.[6]

Bibliography

  • The Reader's Dictionary of Authors (editor)
    • On Charles William Eliot entry
    • On Wilfrid Wilson Gibson entry
    • On George Moore entry
  • The English Language in America, author
  • America and the English Tradition, author
  • Modern Essays, one of the author contributors[7] writing the essay America and the English Tradition.[8]
  • The modern student's book of English literature by Harry Morgan Ayres and others published in 1924[9] by Scribners' sons[10]
  • Beowulf, a paraphrase by Harry Morgan Ayres, published in 1933[9]
  • Library of the World's Best Literature, contributing author
  • A Tale of Palmyra Isle[11]

References

  1. [1]
    Clark, Douglas E. (8 March 2013). Eisenhower in Command at Columbia. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739178379 – via Google Books.
  2. [2]
    "Harry Morgan Ayres, ed. 1917. The Reader's Dictionary of Authors. The Library of the World's Best Literature". www.bartleby.com.
  3. [3]
    "Harry Morgan Ayres". www.bartleby.com.
  4. [4]
    "Book Notices". The English Journal. 13 (9). p. 688. 1924. JSTOR 802743.
  5. [5]
    Jacobs, Travis (18 January 2018). Eisenhower at Columbia. Routledge. ISBN 9781351326469 – via Google Books.
  6. [6]
    The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). VOLUME XVIII. Later National Literature, Part III. XXX. The English Language in America.
  7. [7]
    "Modern Essays from Project Gutenberg". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
  8. [8]
    "The Publishers Weekly". R.R. Bowker Company. 28 November 2018 – via Google Books.
  9. [9]
    "The Warner library : In thirty volumes".
  10. [10]
    Office, Library of Congress Copyright (28 November 2018). "Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1924". Copyright Office, Library of Congress – via Google Books.
  11. [11]
    Ayers, Harry Morgan (October 7, 1913). "A Tale of Palmyra Isle" (Newspaper Article). Honolulu Advertiser.
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