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]
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 edit
- 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 edit
- ^ Clark, Douglas E. (8 March 2013). Eisenhower in Command at Columbia. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739178379 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Harry Morgan Ayres, ed. 1917. The Reader's Dictionary of Authors. The Library of the World's Best Literature". www.bartleby.com.
- ^ "Harry Morgan Ayres". www.bartleby.com.
- ^ "Book Notices". The English Journal. 13 (9). p. 688. 1924. JSTOR 802743.
- ^ Jacobs, Travis (18 January 2018). Eisenhower at Columbia. Routledge. ISBN 9781351326469 – via Google Books.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Modern Essays from Project Gutenberg". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
- ^ "The Publishers Weekly". R.R. Bowker Company. 28 November 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "The Warner library : In thirty volumes".
- ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (28 November 2018). "Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1924". Copyright Office, Library of Congress – via Google Books.
- ^ Ayers, Harry Morgan (October 7, 1913). "A Tale of Palmyra Isle" (Newspaper Article). Honolulu Advertiser.