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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Moses Coit Tyler (1835–1900)

Tyler, Moses Coit. An American educator and author; born in Griswold, CT, Aug. 2, 1835; died at Ithaca, NY, Dec. 25, 1900. From 1867 to 1881 he was professor in the University of Michigan; and after that was professor of American history in Cornell University. He published: ‘Brawnville Papers’ (1868); ‘History of American Literature’ (1878); ‘Manual of English Literature’ (1879); ‘Life of Patrick Henry’ (1887); ‘Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763–83’ (2 vols., 1887); ‘Three Men of Letters’ (1895). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).