Name William Lawton Role Author | Education Harvard University | |
Died 1941, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, United States Books The successors of Homer, Introduction to Classical Latin Liter, The New England poets, The soul of the Anthology | ||
William Cranston Lawton (1853, New Bedford, Massachusetts – 1941) was an American author and educator.
He graduated from Harvard in 1873; studied at Berlin in 1882-83, the year before having been a member of the Assos expedition; from 1895 to 1907 was professor of Greek language and literature in Adelphi College, Brooklyn..
For four years he was the owner and principal of the School of the Lackawanna at Scranton, Pennsylvania. Thereafter he was engaged in literary work and lecturing. He was classical editor of, and the leading contributor to, Warner's Library of the World's Best Literature.
He wrote histories of Greek and Latin literature (1903); and his publications include:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.