Melville Best Anderson

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Melville Best Anderson (born March 28, 1851 in Kalamazoo , Michigan , † June 22, 1933 in La Jolla , California ) was an American Romanist , Italianist and Anglicist .

Life

Anderson graduated from Cornell University . After graduating in 1872, he was a high school teacher in Appleton, Wisconsin . From 1875 to 1877 he studied in Göttingen and Paris. He then taught at Butler University from 1877 , from 1880 at Knox College , from 1886 at Purdue University , from 1887 at Iowa State University and finally (at the instigation of his friend David Starr Jordan ) from 1891 to 1910 as the first chairman of English Department of the newly formed Stanford University . After his retirement he did research in Italy with a Carnegie fellowship.

Anderson spent 20 years at the translation into English tercets the Divine Comedy of Dante. He published the text in 1921 and (revised and provided with additional explanations) in 1929.

Anderson made numerous translations from French into English.

Works

Dante translation

  • The last canto of the Paradiso being a specimen of a translation of the Divine Comedy in triple rime, Florence 1916
  • La Divina commedia. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. A line-for-line translation in the rime-form of the original, Yonkers-on-Hudson 1921 (xiv, 449 pages, only the English translation); The comedy of Dante Alighieri of Florence commonly called the Divine comedy. A line-for-line translation in the rime-form of the original, revised throughout & provided with full notes, 4 vol., San Francisco 1929 ([1] Anderson, The Florence of Dante .-- [2] Inferno.- - [3] Purgatorio - [4] Paradiso)
  • The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri, translated into English verse by Melville Best Anderson; with notes and elucidations by the translator, an introduction by Arthur Livingston, and thirty-two drawings by William Blake now printed for the first time, New York / Oxford 1932, 1944 (xxii, 491 p.)
  • The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri. The Italian text with a translation in English terza-rima verse, 3 vols., London 1933 (622 p .; World's Classics 392–394)

various

  • Some representative poets of the nineteenth century. A syllabus of University extension lectures, San Francisco 1896
  • The great refusal. A war-poem, by a citizen of the United States, Florence 1916
  • (with others) Ewald Flügel. A representation of his life and work, Berlin 1926, Nendeln 1967
  • The Florence of Dante Alighieri. The Dante of all the world, San Francisco 1929

literature

  • Frank Moore Colby, George Sandeman: Nelson's Encyclopaedia: Everybody's Book of Reference, Volume I. Thomas Nelson, New York, 1913, p. 234.
  • Thomas William Herringshaw: American blue-book of biography. American Blue Book Publishers, Chicago, Ill., 1914, p. 30.
  • Henry B. Fuller: Dante in English Rhyme [review of: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri by Melville Best Anderson], in: Poetry 20, 1922, pp. 165–168 ( http://www.jstor.org/stable/ 20573642? Seq = 1 )
  • Stanford University: Annual Report of the President of the University. California, 1933, p. 20.
  • Jane Van Vleck: Ancestry and descendants of Tielman Van Vleeck of Niew Amsterdam, with some descendants of Benjamin Van Vleck and Marinus Roelofse van Vleckeren or Van Vlack. New York, 1955, p. 390.

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personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Melville Best
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance studies, Italian and English studies
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalamazoo , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1933
Place of death La Jolla , California