Barrett Wendell

thumb| Barrett Wendell (August 23, 1855 – February 8, 1921) was an American academic known for a series of textbooks including English Composition, studies of Cotton Mather and William Shakespeare, A Literary History of America, The France of Today, and The Traditions of European Literature. Quotes Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute (1891), p. 117 Quoted in: Arthur Parker Stone and Stewart Lee Garrison, Essentials of Argument (1916), p. 195; Porter Gale Perrin, An Index to English: A Handbook of Current Usage and Style (1939), p. 537 About Wendell was a man of pronounced individuality, warm in his sympathies, singularly loyal in his attachments, and free from littleness. He never concealed his convictions, which were often critical of modern tendencies and points of view. If he seemed to champion the past at the expense of the present, it was because of his insistence on standards and his veneration for the summits not the table lands of tradition. His conversation had the charm of freedom from the commonplace. Robert Grant, "Barrett Wendell (1855–1921)", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 57, no. 18 (1922), p. 520 External links M. A. De Wolfe Howe (ed.) Barrett Wendell and His Letters (1924), p. 71 Edward F. Murphy (ed.) The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations (1978), pp. 7, 30, 34, 118, 254, 449, 468, 598 Category:1855 births Category:1921 deaths Category:Authors from the United States Category:Academics from the United States Category:Harvard University faculty