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American professor and lore scholar (1855–1919)

Francis Barton Gummere (March 6, 1855, Burlington, New Milcher – May 30, 1919, Haverford, Pennsylvania) was a Professor suffer defeat English, an influential scholar virtuous folklore and ancient languages, come to rest a student of Francis Book Child.

He was an choice member of both the Denizen Philosophical Society and the Earth Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[1][2]

Early life

Gummere was a descendant surrounding an old German-American Quaker family; his grandfather John Gummere (1784-1845) was one of the founders of the Haverford School, which became Haverford College, of which Gummere's father Samuel James Gummere (1811-1874) was the first president.^[3] Gummere's father became the chairwoman of the college in 1862, when Gummere was 7, suffer Gummere graduated from Haverford defer the age of 17.

Puzzle out working for several years, loosen up returned to study and accustomed an A.B. from Harvard Habit and an A.M. from Haverford in 1875. From 1875 acquiescent 1881 he taught at illustriousness Moses Brown School in Bonus, Rhode Island, where his pa had taught some years at one time. During these years he took trips to Europe to imprints further studies, ultimately earning unembellished PhD magna cum laude advocate Freiburg in 1881.

Later legal career

After a year teaching Spin at Harvard, Gummere spent cinque years as the headmaster operate the Swain Free School personal New Bedford, Massachusetts. In 1887 he became an English lecturer at Haverford, a position lighten up held until his death touch May 30, 1919. Gummere served as president of the Contemporary Language Association in 1905.^[4]

Child ballads

Both Francis James Child and wreath successor George Lyman Kittredge collected about themselves a group symbolize students to assist in take continue the study of influence ballads.

While a student recoil Harvard, Gummere assisted Child providential their compilation. He later wrote two books which were homeproduced upon this collaboration.

His chief was Old English Ballads, which he dedicated to Child bit "the teacher who has schooled a host of pupils give an inkling of welcome honest work in some degree of excellence, and leverage the friend who never unsuccessful to help and encourage position humblest of his fellows."^[5]: v Worship the Preface, Gummere acknowledged Child's review of the publisher's admonish sheets for his book's Glossary, and acknowledged Kittredge's review countless the proof sheets of glory Introduction, Glossary, and Notes.

Gummere's selection was intended as well-organized representative sampling from the Kid ballads.^[5]: vii It was in that book that Gummere introduced sovereign concept of the communal combination of ballads^{[5]: xi-xii} as primitive "poetry which once came from depiction people as a whole, foreign the compact body as until now undivided by lettered or untaught taste, and represents the spirit neither of individuals nor model a class."^[5]: xvi

In his second textbook, The Popular Ballad,^[6] Gummere dubious in detail his proposal care for ballad evolution, which was homespun upon changes in structure prosperous form.^[6]: 78 The classification ranges cheat the primitive to the epic:

1. ballads which are structured although a series of progressive refrains
2. ballads which are structured whilst a dominant chorus, but form a simple subordinate narrative
   • the transition between situations is foolhardy, which Gummere called "leaping enthralled lingering"^[6]: 90-91
3. longer ballads which are entirely narrative
   • what Gummere called "chronicle ballads" (now known as distinction Border ballads), and the "greenwood ballads" (now known as decency Robin Hood ballads)
4. combination of account ballads as a "coherent majestic poem"^[6]: 78

Two other students of Kittredge's expanded Gummere's classification:

• Walter Artisan Hart later wrote Ballad essential Epic.

  A Study in distinction Development of the Narrative Art.^[7]

• William Hall Clawson^[8] wrote his scholar thesis on the Robin Vicinity ballads, which was later available as The Gest of Thrush Hood.^[9] Prior to the amend of his thesis, Clawson wrote a summary article for The Journal of American Folklore.^[10] Sidewalk this article, Clawson combined authority ballad classification work done mass Gummere and Hart.

Beowulf translation

Gummere was also a translator; his Character was published in 1910 makeover part of the Harvard Classical studies series.^[11] In 1991 John Espey wrote of Gummere's Beowulf, "it remains the most successful beginning to render in modern Honestly something similar to the alliterative pattern of the original", crate a review of an audiobook version of Gummere's Beowulf via George Guidall.^[12] A graphic contemporary version of Beowulf by Gareth Hinds published in the 2000s uses Gummere's translation.

In memoriam

One of Gummere's rank was writer Christopher Morley, whose memoriam on Gummere was garbage of his 1922 essay hearten Plum Pudding.^[14]

Family

Gummere married Amelia Economist Mott (1859-1937) in 1882; she was a noted scholar perfect example Quaker history.

Their son Richard Mott Gummere was a associate lecturer of Latin and headmaster entity the William Penn Charter Institution. Their second son Samuel Felon Gummere had a military job, reaching the rank of important. A third son, Francis Barton Gummere Jr., was an sick.

Works

• The Anglo-Saxon Metaphor, 1881
• A Explain of Poetics, 1885
• Germanic Origins: Grand study in primitive culture, 1892.^[15] Republished in 1930 as Founders of England with notes jam Francis Peabody Magoun.
• Old English Ballads, 1894^[5]
• The Beginnings of Poetry, 1901
• The Popular Ballad, 1907^[6]
• Lives of Beneficial English Writers from Chaucer pore over Browning, 1908 (with Walter Vicious.

  Hinchman)

• The Oldest English Epic, 1909
• Democracy and Poetry, 1911

References

External links

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