[Albert Stanburrough]. American scholar, born on the 6th of March 1853 in Montville, Morris county, NJ. He graduated at Rutgers College in 1872, and also studied at Göttingen and Leipzig (18771878), and, after spending the years 18791881 as associate in English at Johns Hopkins University, in London, and under Sievers at Jena, he became in 1882 professor of English in the University of California, and in 1889 professor of English language and literature in Yale University. He reorganized the teaching of English in the state of California, and edited many texts for reading in secondary schools; but he is best known for his work in Old English and in poetics. He translated, edited, and revised Sieverss Old English Grammar (1885), edited Judith (1888), The Christ of Cynewulf (1900), Assers Life of King Alfred (1905), and The Dream of the Rood (1905), and prepared A First Book in Old English Grammar (1894). He also edited, with annotations, Sidneys Defense of Poesie (1890); Shelleys Defense of Poetry (1891); Newmans Poetry (1891); Addisons Criticisms on Paradise Lost (1892); The Art of Poetry (1892), being the essays of Horace, Vida and Boileau; and Leigh Hunts What is Poetry (1893); and published Higher Study of English (1906). See also The Authorised Version and its Influence.