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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

John William Cunliffe (1865–1946)

Cunliffe, John William. A British-American university professor; born at Bolton, Lancashire, England, Jan. 20, 1865; died in 1946. He was professor of English at McGill University, the University of Wisconsin, and after 1912 associate director of the School of Journalism at Columbia University. He wrote ‘The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy’ (1893); edited Gascoigne’s works, and other texts, and revised, with A. H. Thorndike, the Warner Library of World’s Best Literature.