Author:Cornelius Conway Felton

Cornelius Conway Felton
(1807–1862)

American classical scholar. President of Harvard University.

Cornelius Conway Felton

Works edit

  • A lecture on the classical learning, delivered before the convention of teachers, and other friends of education, assembled to form the American institute of instruction, August, 20, 1830 (1831)
  • A Greek reader: for the use of schools: containing selections in prose and poetry, with English notes and a Lexicon (1840)
  • Classical studies: essays on ancient literature and art (1843). Co-authored with Barnas Sears and Bela Bates Edwards
  • The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, with notes (1847)
  • The Birds of Aristophanes, with notes and a metrical table (1849)
  • Address delivered at the dedication of the new building of Bristol Academy in Taunton, August 25, 1852 (1852)
  • Selections from the Greek Historians arranged in the order of events, with notes (1852)
  • An address delivered before the Association of the alumni of Harvard College, July 20, 1854 (1854)
  • The Panegyricus of Isocrates, from the text of Bremi, with english notes (1854, 2nd edition)
  • A history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest (1855) Revised and extended version of original book by William Smith
  • Selections from modern Greek writers in prose and poetry, with notes (1857)
  • "Inaugural Address" in Addresses at the inauguration of Cornelius Conway Felton, LL. D., as president of Harvard College, and at the Festival of the Alumni, Thursday, July 19, 1860 (1860)
  • Familiar letters from Europe (1865), posthumous publication.

Translation edit

  • German Literature: Translated from the German of Wolfgang Menzel (1840), 3 vols.
  • The Earth and Man: Lectures on comparative physical geography, in its relation to the history of mankind by Arnold Guyot (1849)

As editor edit

  • The Iliad of Homer: From the Text of Wolf. With English Notes (1833)
  • A Memorial of the Rev. John Snelling Popkin (1852)
  • Diary in Turkish and Greek waters (1855) by George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle

Via a spiritualists hand edit

  • Various 'letters' in Post-mortem confessions: being letters written through a mortal's hand by spirits who, when in mortal, were officers of Harvard College: with comments by Allen Putnam (1886)

Works about Felton edit

 

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