Background
Lawton, William Cranston was born on May 22, 1853 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Son of James Madison and Sarah Greene (Cranston) Lawton.
Lawton, William Cranston was born on May 22, 1853 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Son of James Madison and Sarah Greene (Cranston) Lawton.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1873. Studied University of Berlin, 1882-1883.
Member Associates expedition, 1881. Professor Greek language and literature, Adelphi College, Brooklyn, 1895-1907. Professor literature Hobart College, Geneva, New York, 1914-1918, emeritus professor since 1918.
Linguist, United States postal censorship New York City, 1918-1919. Secretary Archaeological Institute America, 1890-1894. Author: Three Dramas of Euripides, 1889.
Folia Dispersa (verse). Art and Humanity in Homer, 1896. New England Poets, 1898.
Successors of Homer, 1898. Pope’s Homer, 1900; Introduction to American Literature, 1902. Histories of Greek and Latin Literature, 1903.
Ideals in Greek Literature, 1905. The Soul of the (Greek) Anthology, 1923. Translator of Maximilian Harden’s Germany, France, and England, 1924.
My Contemporaries (by same), 1925. Translation of Vassler’s The Divine Comedy, 1929. Classical editor and leading classical contributor to Warner’s Library of the World’s Best Literature.
Now chiefly engaged in translating. Home: 230 Seaman Avenue, New York New York.
Author: Three Dramas of Euripides, 1889. Folia Dispersa (verse). Art and Humanity in Homer, 1896.
New England Poets, 1898. Successors of Homer, 1898. Pope’s Homer, 1900
Introduction to American Literature, 1902.
Histories of Greek and Latin Literature, 1903. Ideals in Greek Literature, 1905. The Soul of the (Greek) Anthology, 1923.
Translator of Maximilian Harden’s Germany, France, and England, 1924. My Contemporaries (by same), 1925. Translation of Vassler’s The Divine Comedy, 1929.
Classical editor and leading classical contributor to Warner’s Library of the World’s Best Literature. Now chiefly engaged in translating.
Member Associates expedition, 1881.
Married Alida Allen Beattie, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, January 24, 1884. Children: Maxwell Francis (deceased), Ernest Beattie, Wilhelmine Alida.