Lewis Edwards Gates

Lewis E. Gates

Lewis Edwards Gates (1860 – 1924) was an American literary critic and professor at Harvard University.

Career overview

Lewis E. Gates was graduated from Harvard in 1884. He later studied in Germany, France and England, returning to Harvard in 1890 as instructor in English. Six years later he was made Assistant Professor of English.

Works

• Selections from the Essays of Francis Jeffrey (1894)
• Selections from the Prose Writings of John Henry, Cardinal Newman (1895)
• Three Studies in Literature (1899)
• Studies and Appreciations (1900)

Selected articles

• "The Romantic Elements in Lord Tennyson's Poetry," The Harvard Monthly, Vol. XV (1892)
• "Mr. Meredith and his Aminta", The Chap-book, Vol. II (1894)
• "Hawthorne," The Chap-book, Vol. IX (1898)
• "Edgar Allan Poe," The Chap-book, Vol. IX (1898)
• "Impressionism and Appreciation," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. LXXXVI (1900)

External links

• Works by Lewis Edwards Gates at Hathi Trust
• The Study of Literature