Caleb Thomas Winchester

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Caleb Thomas Winchester
Caleb Thomas Winchester

Caleb Thomas Winchester (1847-1920) was an American English scholar, born in Montville, Connecticut. He graduated in 1869 from Wesleyan University, where he was librarian until 1873 and thereafter professor of English literature. During 1880-81 he studied in Leipzig, Germany. Besides serving on the deliberative assembly which revised The Methodist Hymnal, he published:

  • Five Short Courses of Reading in English Literature (1892; third edition, revised, 1911)
  • Some Principles of Literary Criticism (1899)
  • Life of John Wesley (1906)
  • A Group of English Essayists (1910)
  • Representative English Essays (1914)


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