Caleb Thomas Winchester (January 18, 1847 – March 24, 1920) was an American English scholar.

Biography

He was born in Montville,

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. He prepared for college at Wilbraham Academy in

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. He then attended

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, where he graduated in 1869. He remained at Wesleyan, where he was

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until 1873,

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of rhetoric and

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until 1890, and simply professor of English literature after that. During 1880-81 he studied in

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. He was noted for the quality of his lectures. He married Julia Stackpole Smith in 1872. She died in 1877, and he married Alice Goodwin Smith in 1880.

Works

He wrote: * ''Some Principles of Literary Criticism'' (1899) * ''Life of

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'' (1906) * ''A Group of English Essayists'' (1910) * ''Wordsworth — How to Know Him'' (1916) * ''An Old Castle and other essays'' (1922) Besides serving on the

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which revised ''The Methodist Hymnal'', he edited: * ''Selected Essays of

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'' (1886, 1890) * ''Five Short Courses of Reading in English Literature'' (1892; third edition, revised, 1911) * ''The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers'' (1904) * ''Representative English Essays'' (1914)

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External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Winchester, Caleb Thomas Wesleyan University alumni Wesleyan University faculty People from Montville, Connecticut 1847 births 1920 deaths