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William Cranston LawtonNew Bedford, Massachusetts, 1853 - 1941

http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86095870/ I.S. 12/21/2017

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found: His Folia dispersa, 1895: t.p. (William Cranston Lawton)

found: LC data base, 3-13-87 (hdg.: Lawton, William Cranston, 1853-1941)

found: The successors of Homer, 1969: t.p. (W.C. Lawton)

William Cranston Lawton (1853, New Bedford, Massachusetts – 1941) was an American author and educator.

He graduated from Harvard in 1873; studied at Berlin in 1882-83, the year before having been a member of the Assos expedition; from 1895 to 1907 was professor of Greek language and literature in Adelphi College, Brooklyn..

For four years he was the owner and principal of the School of the Lackawanna at Scranton, Pennsylvania. Thereafter he was engaged in literary work and lecturing. He was classical editor of, and the leading contributor to, Warner's Library of the World's Best Literature.

He wrote histories of Greek and Latin literature (1903); and his publications include:

Three Dramas of Euripedes (1889)

Art and Humanity in Homer (1896)

New England Poets (1898)

Successors of Homer (1898)

Folia Dispersa (1895); a volume of poems

Ideals in Greek Literature (1905)

Study of American Literature' (1902)

Wikisource-logo.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cranston_Lawton I.S. 12/21/2017

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