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Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1838–1915)
Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford. An American scholar; born at Ovid, NY, Jan. 1, 1838; died on April 9, 1915. He served during the Civil War as first lieutenant of the 126th New York Volunteers; from 1871 was professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Among his published works are Chaucer’s ‘House of Fame’ and ‘Parlement of Foules’; ‘History of the English Language’ (1879); biography of James Fenimore Cooper in ‘American Men of Letters’ series (1883); ‘Studies in Chaucer, his Life and Writings’ (3 vols., 1892); ‘Shakespearean Wars’ (1901–03). He edited the ‘Yale Book of American Verse’ (1912).