James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
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James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (1858-1923) was an English writer on Spanish literature. In 1907 he lectured at various American universities for the Hispanic Society of America. He was Gilmour professor of Spanish language and literature at the University of Liverpool, and (1908) Norman MacColl lecturer at Cambridge. From 1909 to 1916 he was professor of Spanish language and literature at the University of Liverpool and in 1916 he gave a special course at Cambridge. He was a fellow of the British Academy, corresponding member of the Real Academia Española de la Lengua and of the Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid); and a Knight Commander of the Order of Alfonso XII.
He contributed on Spanish literature to the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, to the Cambridge Modern History, to Homenaie a Menendez y Pelayo, etc.
- He edited:
- The Complete Works of Cervantes (1901- )
- Don Quixote, with John Ormsby (1899-1900)
- Oxford Book of Spanish Verse (1913)
- Samaniego's Fabulas en verso (1917)
- Iriarte's Fabulas Literarias (1917)
- Garcilaso de la Vega's Eglogas (1918)
- Poesias varias (1918)
- Cambridge Readings in Spanish Literature (1920)
- He wrote:
- Life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1892)
- A history of Spanish Literature (1898; In Spanish, 1901; in French, 1904; second edition in French, 1913)
- Lope de Vega and Spanish Drama (1902)
- Cervantes in England (1905)
- Chapters on Spanish Literature (1908)
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: A Memoir (1913)
- Bibliographie de l'histoire de la littérature espagnole (1913)
- Cervantes and Shakespeare (1916)
- Gongora (1918)
- Fray Luis de Leon (1921)
- Spanish Literature Primer (1922)
