George Ticknor (1 August 1791-26 January 1871), teacher, philanthropist, scholar, and author, was born in Boston. His father, Elisha Ticknor, was a strict Federalist and Calvinist whose conservative v...
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George Ticknor was one of Boston's reigning men of letters in the generation immediately preceding that of the Transcendentalists. Ticknor mediated between the more intellectual elements of the New En...
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George Ticknor's response to his teaching demands at Harvard College and the needs presented to him when writing his History of Spanish Literature (1849) was to assemble a library of some four thousan...
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George Ticknor, a groundbreaking New England intellectual, is known primarily for his monumental three-volume History of Spanish Literature (1849). Appearing at a time when Americans were struggling t...
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George Ticknor