Caleb Thomas Winchester

Caleb Thomas Winchester (1847-1920) was an American English scholar, born in Montville, Connecticut. He graduated in 1869 from Wesleyan University, where he was librarian until 1873 and thereafter professor of English literature. During 1880-81 he studied in Leipzig, Germany. Besides serving on the deliberative assembly which revised "The Methodist Hymnal", he published:
* "Five Short Courses of Reading in English Literature" (1892; third edition, revised, 1911)
* "Some Principles of Literary Criticism" (1899)
* "Life of John Wesley" (1906)
* "A Group of English Essayists" (1910)
* "Representative English Essays" (1914)

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