Essays on Modern Novelists

William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943) was a preeminent American educator, literary critic, and author, renowned for his enthusiastic promotion of literature as a vital force in education and life. He graduated from Yale in 1887 and subsequently received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1891. Phelps returned to Yale and served as a professor of English literature from 1901 until his retirement in 1933. During h...