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William Lyon Phelps
William Lyon Phelps (1895)
Born(1865-01-02)January 2, 1865
New Haven, Connecticut
DiedAugust 21, 1943(1943-08-21) (aged 78)
New Haven, Connecticut
Other namesBilly
Occupation(s)Professor of English Literature, author
Known forYale University Lampson Professor of English Literature. Taught first American university course in the modern novel.
SpouseAnnabel Hubbard
Parent(s)Sylvanus Dryden Phelps, Sophia Emilia Linsley

William Lyon Phelps (January 2, 1865 New Haven, Connecticut – August 21, 1943 New Haven, Connecticut) was an American author, critic and scholar. He taught the first American university course on the modern novel. He had a radio show, wrote a daily syndicated newspaper column, lectured frequently, and published numerous books and articles.

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William Lyon Phelps (January 2, 1865 New Haven, Connecticut – August 21, 1943 New Haven, Connecticut) was an American author, critic and scholar. He taught...

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Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

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and is inseparable from his conscious thoughts about seeing each." William Lyon Phelps proposes three different interpretations of the poem: In the first...

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The Pundits

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Pundits, as an undergraduate at Yale, was the illustrious William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943). Phelps went on to become essentially the leading humanities scholar...

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Songs of Travel and Other Verses

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Songs of Travel and Other Verses public domain audiobook at LibriVox William Lyon Phelps (2006). Essays On Modern Novelists. Kessinger Publishing. p. 288...

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Hillhouse Avenue

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Wolf's Head Society. William Lyon Phelps House, 1908–1909, at 110 Whitney Avenue, Colonial Revival a second William Lyon Phelps House, 1914, at 114 Whitney...

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The Woodlanders

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Arthur Quiller-Couch, "his loveliest if not his finest book", by William Lyon Phelps, "the most beautiful and most noble of Hardy's novels", and by A...

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Yale Literary Magazine

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featuring several alumni authors, including Stephen Vincent Benét, William Lyon Phelps, and Gifford Pinchot. In 1978, the then-bankrupt magazine was purchased...

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Edmond Rostand

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"Rostand". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Retrieved 5 August 2019. William Lyon Phelps (1921) Essays on Modern Dramatists, Macmillan, New York Delage, Roger...

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A Laodicean

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his 1910 Essays on Modern Novelists, American critic and scholar William Lyon Phelps, wrote: No one of Mr Hardy's novels contain more of the facts of...

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Mermaid Series

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Spanish Curate - The Faithful Shepherdess - Valentinian Edited by William Lyon Phelps All Fools - Bussy D'Ambois - The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois - The...

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1928 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Wharton (1862–1937)  United States novel, short story, poetry, essays William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943) 36 Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (1855–1931)  Uruguay poetry...

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Hideyo Noguchi

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honors." When Noguchi was awarded an honorary doctorate at Yale, William Lyon Phelps observed that the kings of Spain, Denmark and Sweden had conferred...

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Yale Dramatic Association

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were enjoyed by students from the earliest days. When Professor William Lyon Phelps, '87, commenced his teaching during the 1890s, he began a literary...

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The Canary Murder Case

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I have seen. Philo Vance is an original and fascinating person." William Lyon Phelps. The Canary Murder Mystery today is primarily of interest as a classic...

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Daniel Dunglas Home

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ISBN 978-0199975037. Robert Browning's letter is transcribed by William Lyon Phelps, in "Robert Browning on Spiritualism," Yale Review, new series 23...

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Alexander Smith Cochran

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from Yale University in 1896; in 1911, he founded, with aid from William Lyon Phelps, the university's Elizabethan Club. Cochran bought the clubhouse...

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American Academy of Arts and Letters

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O'Keeffe Thomas N. Page Horatio Parker Joseph Pennell Bliss Perry William Lyon Phelps Charles Adams Platt Ezra Pound James Ford Rhodes James Whitcomb Riley...

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The Prodigal Judge

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consisting of Yale University professor William Lyon Phelps, magazine editor John Sanborn Phillips, and writer William Allen White. Third place went to H....

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The Undying Past

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such, strong. But the character-drawing seems to me superficial". William Lyon Phelps wrote about The Undying Past in his 1918 book Essays on Modern Novelists:...

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May 1933

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Nazi state. British scholar A. E. Housman gave what Yale professor William Lyon Phelps called "the most famous lecture delivered in the twentieth century"...

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