John William Cunliffe
John William Cunliffe (January 20, 1865 in Bolton, Lancashire[1]- 1946) was a scholar and writer. He was a professor and English department chairman at Columbia University[2] and also directed the school's journalism department.[3][4]
Career
[edit]Cunliffe was one of the contributing editors to the Library of the World's Best Literature. He coauthored an introduction to one of the revised, updated, and expanded editions.[5] He was succeeded at Columbia by Carl W. Ackerman.[6]
In March 1928, Columbia University Press announced a plan to publish a survey of literature chaired by Cunliffe.[7] Columbia University has a collection of English department correspondence that includes Cunliffe.[8]
Bibliography
[edit]- Poems of the Great War by John William Cunliffe, The Macmillan Company, 1916 on behalf of the Belgian scholarship committee ISBN 9781103867745
- Leaders of the Victorian revolution (1934) by John William Cunliffe
- The influence of Seneca on Elizabethan tragedy (1893) by John William Cunliffe
- English literature during the last half-century (1919) by John William Cunliffe, a collection of essays
- English literature in the twentieth century (1933) by John William Cunliffe
- The complete works of George Gascoigne (1907) by George Gascoigne edited by John William Cunliffe
- Modern English playwrights; a short history of the English drama from 1825 (1927) by John William Cunliffe
- The Columbia University Course in Literature : Writers of Modern America, John W. Cunliffe (Chairman), Columbia University Press, New York, 1929
- Early English classical tragedies (1912) by John William Cunliffe
- Century readings for a course in English literature (1910) by John William Cunliffe
- Writing of Today : Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe
- College English Composition (article)[9]
References
[edit]- ^ CUNLIFFE, John William, in Who's Who in America (14th edition, 1926); p. 542
- ^ "Cunliffe, John William 1865-1946". worldcat.org. WorldCat Identities.
- ^ "J.W. Cunliffe". loc.gov. Library of Congress.
- ^ "COLUMBIA ALTERS JOURNALISM POLICY; J.W. Cunliffe, Director, Tells Plans to Make Courses More Useful to News Students. REPORTING TO BE STRESSED Laboratory Work in Copy Editing Will Be Concentrated -- Other Changes Are Announced". The New York Times. 24 January 1926.
- ^ "John William Cunliffe and Ashley Horace Thorndike. Preface. Warner, et al., comp. 1917. The Library of the World's Best Literature". www.bartleby.com.
- ^ Boylan, James R.; Boylan, Professor James (28 November 2018). Pulitzer's School: Columbia University's School of Journalism, 1903-2003. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231130905 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Columbia Daily Spectator 5 March 1928 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Columbia University.
- ^ Columbia University English Department Correspondence, 1896-1961 www.columbia.edu › Libraries Home
- ^ Cunliffe, John W. (28 November 2018). "College English Composition". The English Journal. 1 (10): 591–600. doi:10.2307/801824. JSTOR 801824.
