Roger Sherman Loomis

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Roger Sherman Loomis (October 31, 1887 – October 1966) was an American scholar of medieval and Arthurian literature. He was a defender of the theory of Celtic origins of the Grail myth. He was Professor at Columbia University.

Roger Sherman Loomis was the son of Henry Patterson Loomis, the great nephew of William Maxwell Evarts and the great-great grandson of American founding father Roger Sherman.

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Illustrations of Medieval Romance On Tiles From Chertsey Abbey (1916)
Freshman Readings (1925)
Celtic Myth and Arthurian Romance (1927)
The Art of Writing Prose (1930) with Mabel Louise Robinson, Helen Hull and Paul Cavanaugh
Models for Writing Prose (1931)
The Romance of Tristram and Ysolt (1931) translator
Arthurian Legends in Medieval Art (1938) with Laura Hibbard Loomis
Introduction to Medieval Literature, Chiefly in England. Reading List and Bibliography (1939)
Representative Medieval And Tudor Plays (1942) editor with Henry W. Wells
The Fight for Freedom: College Reading in Wartime (1943) with Gabriel M. Liegey
Modern English Readings (1945) editor with Donald Lemen Clark
Medieval English Verse and Prose (1948) with Rudolph Willard
Arthurian Tradition And Chretien De Troyes (1949)
Wales and the Arthurian Legend (1956)
Medieval Romances (1957) editor with Laura Hibbard Loomis
Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, A Collaborative History (1959) editor
The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol (1963)
The Development of Arthurian Romance (1963)
A Mirror of Chaucer's World (1965)
The Arthurian Material in the Chronicles: Especially Those in Great Britain and France (1973) expansion of Robert Huntington Fletcher's 1906 book
Lanzelet (2005) translator Thomas Kerth, notes by Loomis and Kenneth G. T. Webster