Louise Pound

Louise Pound (June 30, 1872 – June 27, 1958) was a distinguished American folklorist, linguist, and college professor at the University of Nebraska.

Early life

Pound was born in Lincoln, Nebraska to Stephen Bosworth Pound and Laura Pound. Pound studied at the University of Nebraska (B.B. 1892 and M.A., 1895). She continued her studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Heidelberg, and earned her Ph.D. in 1900. She was a professor of English at the University of Nebraska for most of her career.

Professional life

Pound was a member of many professional societies. She was president of the American Folklore Society, 1925-1927. She was the first woman to serve as president of the Modern Language Association (1954–1955). In 1925, with Kemp Malone and Arthur G. Kennedy she founded the journal American Speech "to present information about English in America in a form appealing to general readers". Pound was the First Vice President of the American Association of University Women in the 1940s.

An athlete in her youth, Pound was inducted into the Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame in 1955.

Personal

Pound was a sister of noted legal professor Roscoe Pound. Pound and Cather residence halls at the University of Nebraska (Lincoln) are named after Louise Pound and Willa Cather, with whom Pound maintained a close friendship. [1]

Bibliography

Books

• A List of Strong Verbs and Preterite Present Verbs in Anglo-Saxon (1898)
• The Comparison of Adjectives in English in the XV and the XVI Century (1901)
• The Periods of English literature. Outlines of the History of English Literature with Reading and Reference Lists (1910)
• Blends, Their Relation to English Word Formation (1914)
• Folk-song of Nebraska and The Central West : A Syllabus (1915)
• Poetic Origins and the Ballad (1921)
• American Ballads and Songs (1923)
• Ideas and Models (1935)
• Nebraska Cave Lore (1948)
• Selected Writings of Louise Pound (1949)
• The American Dialect Society: A Historical Sketch (1952)
• Nebraska Folklore (1959)

Articles

• The Southwestern Cowboy Songs and the English and Scottish Popular Ballads" (1913)
• "Traditional Ballads in Nebraska" (1913)
• "British and American Pronunciation: Retrospect and Prospect" (1915)
• "New-world Analogues of the English and Scottish Popular Ballads" (1916)
• "Word-coinage and Modern Trade-names" (1917)
• "The Pluralization of Latin Loan-Words in Present-Day American Speech" (1919)
• "King Cnut's Song and Ballad Origins" (1919)
• "The 'Uniformity' of the Ballad Style" (1920)
• "The English Ballads and the Church" (1920)
• "Walt Whitman and the classics" (1925)
• "Walt Whitman Neologisms" (1925)
• "A Recent Theory of Ballad-Making" (1929)
• "The Etymology of Stir 'prison' Again" (1931)
• "American Euphemisms for Dying, Death, and Burial: An Anthology" (1936)
• "Literary Anthologies and the Ballad" (1942)
• "The Legend of the Lincoln Salt Basin" (1951)
• "Yet another Joe Bowers" (1957)

See also

• Antonine Barada

References

• "Pound, Louise." American National Biography. 17:759-760. 1999.
• "Pound, Louise." The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. 24:538. 1953.
• Marie Krohn, Louise Pound: the 19th century iconoclast who forever changed America's views on women, academics, and sports, Clearfield, Utah:American Legacy Historical Press, 2008.
• Nebraska State Historical Society

External links

• Louise Pound papers at Nebraska State Historical Society
• "Indefinite Composites and Word-Coinage" (1913) by Louise Pound
• "The Literary Interregnum" (1913) by Louise Pound
• "Emerson as a Romanticist" (1915) by Louise Pound
• "New-World Analogues of the English and Scottish Popular Ballads" (1916) by Louise Pound