Henry Seidel Canby
Author · 6 Sep 1878 – 5 Apr 1961

Henry Seidel Canby

critic, editor, and Yale University professor

Works

Definitions
1922
The Book of the Short Story
1946
Good English
1925
A study of the short story
1913
The short story.
1902
English composition in theory and practice
1912
Literary history of the United States
1963
Definitions (Essays in Contemporary Criticism)
2006
Elements of Composition for Secondary Schools
1919
Classic Americans
1931
Good English
1918
Education by Violence
2010
Definitions
1922
American estimates
1929
College sons and college fathers.
1915
The age of confidence
1934
Saturday papers
1921
Thoreau.
1939
Turn west, turn east
1951
Walt Whitman, an American
1943
Seven years' harvest
1936
Facts, Thought, and Imagination;
2019
The short story in English
1909
Short Story in English
1926
A study of the short story
1913
Everyday Americans
1920
Alma mater
1936
American memoir.
1947
The American scholar and the war
1936
The Brandywine
1941
Elements of composition for secondary schools
1913
Everyday Americans
1920
Our house
1919
Saturday papers, essays on literature from the Literary review
1921
Seven years' harvest
1936
Thoreau
1958
Selections from Robert Louis Stevenson;
2023
English Composition in Theory and Practice
2016
Everyday Americans
2008
Classic Americans
1958
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