Henry Seidel Canby

Henry Seidel Canby (September 6, 1878 – April 5, 1961) was a critic, editor, and Yale University professor.

Canby was born in Wilmington, Delaware and attended Wilmington Friends School. He graduated from Yale in 1899, then taught at the university until becoming a professor in 1922.

Following a four year stint as the editor of the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post, Canby became one of the founders and editors of the Saturday Review of Literature, serving as the last until 1936.

Bibliography

• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism (1922)
• American Estimates (1929)
• Classic Americans (1931)
• The Age of Confidence (1934)
• Thoreau (1939)
• Whitman (1943)
• The Brandywine (1941) (Part of the Rivers of America Series)
• The Gothic Age of the American College (1936)
• Turn West, Turn East: Mark Twain and Henry James (1951)
• Introduction to Favorite Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1947)

External links

• Works by or about Henry Seidel Canby at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions color illustrated)
• Works by Henry Seidel Canby at Project Gutenberg (plain text and HTML)

References

• Information Please Almanac article on Henry Seidel Canby

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Homer Saint-Gaudens	Cover of Time Magazine 19 May 1924	Succeeded by Sir James Craig