Background
Lovett, Robert Morss was born on December 25, 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Augustus S. and Elizabeth (Russell) Lovett.
Lovett, Robert Morss was born on December 25, 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Augustus S. and Elizabeth (Russell) Lovett.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1892.
Assistant in English, Harvard, 1892, instructor, 1893. Instructor rhetoric, University of Chicago, 1893, assistant Professor of English, 1896-1904, associate professor, 1904-1909, professor, 1909-1936, dean in junior colleges, 1903-1907, dean of junior colleges, 1907-1920. Government secretary Virgin Islands, 1939-1943.
Visiting professor of England, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Prize ring (The) 1944.
Author: A History of English Literature (with W. V, Moody), 1902. Richard Gresham (novel), 1904. A First View of English Literature (with W. V. Moody), 1905.
A Winged Victory (novel), 1907. Cowards (play), produced Fine Arts Theatre, Chicago, 1914, public in “Drama,” August 1917. Edith Wharton (criticism), 1925.
Preface to Fiction, 1930. History of the Novel in England (with Helen Sard Hughes), 1932. Compiler: (anthology) British Poetry and Prose (with R. K. Root and Paul R. Lieder), 1928.
Selected Poems of William Vaughn Moody, 1930. A College Reader (with Howard Mumford Jones), 1937. All Our Years (autobiography), 1948.
Editor of The Dial, 1919. Editorial board The New Republic, 1922-1930.
Member National Institute Arts and Letters. Clubs: University, Tavern (Chicago).
Married Ida Mott-Smith, June 4, 1895. Children: Robert Morss (killed in Belleau Wood, France), Beatrice Russell, Ruth.