Background
Thomas Cable was born on June 17, 1942, in Conroe, Texas, United States.
Tom Cable
Tom attended Yale University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1964.
Tom entered graduate studies in English at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving his Ph.D. in 1969 with a specialization in English language and linguistics.
Tom Cable
Tom attended Yale University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1964.
Tom entered graduate studies in English at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving his Ph.D. in 1969 with a specialization in English language and linguistics.
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1974
(A History of the English Language explores the linguistic...)
A History of the English Language explores the linguistic and cultural development of English from the Roman conquest of England to the present day to provide a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of its history.
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1978
(This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accomp...)
This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the fifth edition of Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable's History of the English Language.
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1983
(The meter of Middle English alliterative poetry, Thomas C...)
The meter of Middle English alliterative poetry, Thomas Cable contends, holds the key to a reinterpretation of both Old English meter and iambic pentameter, which in turn provides a new understanding of Middle English meter itself.
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1991
(In the beginning, poetry and music formed one art: Homer ...)
In the beginning, poetry and music formed one art: Homer was sung, Beowulf was sung, and the Provençal lyric was sung.
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1991
Thomas Cable was born on June 17, 1942, in Conroe, Texas, United States.
After graduating from Conroe High School, Tom attended Yale University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1964. After a year in Paris he entered graduate studies in English at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving his Ph.D. in 1969 with a specialization in English language and linguistics.
Tom Cable's first full-time faculty position was at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He returned to the University of Texas at Austin in 1972 as an Associate Professor. Since then he has held four visiting appointments in France - at the Universities of Paris and Montpellier. He retired as a member of the English Department’s faculty at the University of Texas in 2011.
Cable's two main areas of research and teaching are the forms of English poetry from its origins to the present and the history of the English language. He is the author of five books, which include: The Meter and Melody of Beowulf (1974), A History of the English Language (1978), A Companion to Baugh and Cable's History of the English Language (1983), The Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry (1991), and The English Alliterative Tradition (1991).
(The meter of Middle English alliterative poetry, Thomas C...)
1991(A History of the English Language explores the linguistic...)
1978(In the beginning, poetry and music formed one art: Homer ...)
1991(This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accomp...)
1983Tom Cable married Carole Gagnon in 1969. They have one daughter Amory.
