Sylvanus Griswold Morley (Romanist)
Sylvanus Griswold Morley (born February 23, 1878 in Baldwinville , Worcester County , Massachusetts , † December 24, 1970 in Berkeley , California ) was an American Romanist and Hispanist .
Life
Morley received his PhD from Harvard University in 1902 with the thesis Spanish influence on Molière . He was a professor of Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley .
Morley is often confused with his cousin of the same name, the Maya explorer Sylvanus Griswold Morley .
Works
- (Ed.) Spanish ballads , New York 1911
- (Ed. With Elijah Clarence Hills ) Modern Spanish lyrics , New York 1913
- (Eds.) Serafín y Joaquín Álvarez Quintero, Doña Clarines y Mañana de sol , Boston / New York 1915
- Studies in Spanish dramatic versification of the siglo de oro. Alarcon and Moreto , Berkeley 1918
- (Ed.) Spanish humor in story and essay , Boston 1921
- (Translator) Sonnets and poems of Anthero de Quental , Berkeley 1922, Westport 1973
- (Ed. With William J. Entwistle ) Tres sainetes en verso , por Narciso Serra, Javier de Burgos, Ricardo de La Vega, Boston / New York 1926
- (Ed. With Robert Kilburn Spaulding) Vital Aza, Tres piezas cómicas , Boston / New York 1929
- (Ed. And translator) Ernest Mérimée , A history of Spanish literature , New York 1930
- (Eds.) Lope de Vega , El bastardo mudarra , Berkeley 1935
- The Covered Bridges of California , Berkeley 1938
- (with Courtney Bruerton) The chronology of Lope de Vega's Comedias , New York 1940, 1966 (Spanish Madrid 1968)
- (Ed. And translator) The Interludes of Cervantes , Princeton 1948, New York 1969
- (with Richard W. Tyler) Los Nombres de personajes en las comedias de Lope de Vega. Estudio de onomatología , Berkeley 1961
literature
- University of California (System): University bulletin: a weekly bulletin for the staff of the University of California, Volume 19, Office of Official Publications, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1971, p. 92.
- Autobiographical writings of Sylvanus Griswold (Small) Morley, 1878-1970 , ed. by Thomas Morley, Berkeley 1997
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Morley, Sylvanus Griswold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Small, Sylvanus Griswold; Morley, Sylvanus Griswold (Small) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance philologist and Hispanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baldwinville , Worcester County , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1970 |
| Place of death | Berkeley , California |