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George Lyman Kittredge was a professor of English literature at Harvard University. His scholarly edition of the works of William Shakespeare was influential in the early 20th century. He was also involved in American folklore studies, and instrumental in the formation and management of the Harvard Press for more than two decades where he published a book on witchcraft in England.

✵ 28. February 1860 – 23. July 1941
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George Lyman Kittredge Quotes

“A good sonnet appears to be a confession-in a word either patently artificial, and then it is bad, or good, then it sounds like autobiography.”

George Lyman Kittredge

The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 1936. Chap XI

Appearance

“(On sexual intercourse:) The pleasure is momentary, the pains are infinite, and the posture is ridiculous.”

George Lyman Kittredge

as remembered by William S. Burroughs, in: Ted Morgan, Literary Outlaw. The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs. London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012, p. 61.

Pain , Pleasure

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