Caleb Thomas Winchester

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Caleb Thomas Winchester (1847-1920) was an American English scholar, born at Montville, Conn. He graduated in 1869 from Wesleyan University, where he was librarian till 1873 and thereafter professor of English literature. He also became known as a lecturer in his own special field. The years 1880-81 he spent in study at Leipzig. Besides serving on the committee 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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