Background
Pancoast, Henry Spackman was born on August 24, 1858 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles Stacey and Mary Anne (Shelmerdine) Pancoast.
Pancoast, Henry Spackman was born on August 24, 1858 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles Stacey and Mary Anne (Shelmerdine) Pancoast.
Educated Germantown Academy and by private tutor. Doctor of Humane Letters, Trinity, 1912. Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1913.
Admitted to bar, 1882. Retired from practice, 1887, to engage in teaching and in literature work. Author: Introduction to English Literature, 1895, 4th edit, 1917.
Introduction to American Literature, 1898, revised edit, 1911.
A First Book of English Literature (with P. V. Doctorate. Shelly), 1911, 1923. Frank Norris, introduction to McTeague, in The Modern Library, 1918.
Editor: Standard English Poems, 1900. Standard English Prose, Bacon to Stevenson, 1902.
Early English Poems (with J. Doctorate. East. Spaeth), 1911.
A Vista of English Verse, 1911. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson, 1915. Home: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Married Dorothea Napier, June 2, 1897. Children: Charles Edward, Henry Stacey, Margaret Lindsay.