George Wiley Sherburn (1884 – 28 November 1962) was an American scholar of eighteenth-century

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. He was a specialist of

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. He was an English professor at

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and chairman of the Harvard English Department from 1945 to 1947.

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1884 births 1962 deaths Harvard University faculty Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy American academics of English literature Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Wesleyan University alumni University of Chicago alumni Columbia University faculty Presidents of the Modern Language Association {{US-bio-stub