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1838–1915 United States

Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (January 1, 1838 – April 9, 1915) was an American literary historian, literary critic, author of several books, and professor of English language and literature at Yale University. He is noteworthy for his 1882 biography of James Fenimore Cooper and his 3-volume ‘’Studies in Chaucer’’ (Harper & Brothers, 1892).

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J in the course of time became the literary autocrat of his age. He was disliked by many; but there was no one to dispute his supremacy. As he was conspicuously identified with the cause of the unities, it was inevitable that his advocacy of it and his example should affect in some measure the belief and practice of his contemporaries.

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