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Francis Barton Gummere (1855–1919)
Gummere, Francis Barton (gum’ery). An American teacher and author; born at Burlington, NJ, March 6, 1855; died in 1919. He was instructor in Harvard College from 1881 to 1882; and in 1887 became professor of English at Haverford College, PA. Besides miscellaneous papers in Germanic philology and English literature, he wrote: ‘Handbook of Poetics’ (1885); ‘Germanic Origins’ (1862); ‘The Popular Ballad’ (1907); ‘The Oldest English Epic’ (1909); ‘Democracy and Poetry’ (1911).