Arthur Graves Canfield

Arthur Graves Canfield (born March 27, 1859 in Sunderland , Bennington County , Vermont , † December 5, 1947 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) was an American Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Canfield graduated from Williams College in 1881. From 1879 to 1882 he studied in Leipzig , Berlin , Göttingen and Paris . From 1883 he taught at the University of Kansas in Lawrence , from 1887 as a professor of French. From 1900 to 1929 he was in the same capacity at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Canfield was an honorary doctorate from Williams College (1920).

(with others) Sunflowers. Poems , Lawrence, Kansas 1888
(Ed.) Poems of Victor Hugo , New York 1906
(Eds.) French Lyrics , New York 1899, 1927; 2nd edition (with Warner Forrest Patterson ) and T. French poems , New York 1941, 1948, 1960

Arthur Graves Canfield, The reappearing characters in Balzac's Comédie humaine , ed. by Edward B. Ham, Chapel Hill 1961, Westport 1977

personal data
SURNAME	Canfield, Arthur Graves
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	March 27, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sunderland , Vermont
DATE OF DEATH	December 5, 1947
Place of death	Ann Arbor , Michigan