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GEORGE EDWARD, Mass., American poet; born in Beverley, Mass., May 12, 1855; was graduated at Harvard College in 1877; was Professor of English Literature in Nebraska State University in 1877-1878 and 1880-1882; of Comparative Literature, Columbia, 1891. He retired from this post, 1904. Besides articles in magazines and reviews, he wrote: a "History of Wood Engraving" (1883); "Life of Edgar Allan Poe" (1885); and "The North Shore Watch, and Other Poems" (1890); "Studies in Letters and Life" (1890); "Heart of Man" (1899); "Wild Eden" (1899); "Makers of Literature" (1900); "The Appreciation of Literature" (1907); "The Inspiration of Poetry" (1910); "Two Phases of Criticism" (1918) ; "The Roamer and Other Poems" (1919). He published also an edition of Shelley (1892), and one of Poe (1895), with E.
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