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and Doctor of Philosophy (1894) from Harvard University, working with the eminent medievalists Francis James Child and George Lyman Kittredge.
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Norris received his Bachelor of Arts (1891), Master of Arts In 1936, after appointments at Harvard as instructor (1894), assistant professor (1902), and professor (1906), he succeeded his thesis adviser, Kittredge, as Gurney Professor of English. In 1895, he spent a year abroad at the University of Freiburg, Germany, working with Rudolph Turneysen, one of the founders of Celtic Philology. Richard Utz, “The Colony Writes Back:.
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Norris" main scholarly achievement was the publication, after 29 years of preparatory work, of the most influential edition of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1933. Second edition 1957 published under slightly different titles). The 1987 Riverside Chaucer, while revised and re-edited by several colleagues, is greatly indebted to his work. These three editions have facilitated more students" first contact with the medieval author than any others Moreover, his work as editor contributed to the move of Chaucer studies from Europe to North America. The other major success in Norris" career is that he became the founding father of Celtic Studies in the United States. "He taught the first course in Gaelic in the United States, and because of his collection building with Irish language and literature, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton, and Manx books, Harvard"s Widener Library has the finest collection of works in the field of Celtic Studies in the world.".
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