John Wesley Hales (

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, Leicestershire, 5 October 1836 -

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, 19 May 1914), was a British scholar and man of letters.

Life

John Wesley Hales was educated at Louth grammar school, Glasgow High School,

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and Christ's College, Cambridge, which elected him to a fellowship. He was for some time an assistant master at Marlborough College under

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, as well as examiner at King's College London, and the universities of

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and

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, and from 1889-93 Clark lecturer on English literature at

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. Until 1903, when he retired, he was professor of English literature at King's College London. In May 1901 he was elected an

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of Christ's College, Cambridge. He married Henrietta Trafford, daughter of judge Richard Leigh Trafford and Eliza Frances Tarleton, in 1867.

Works

Hales published 109 works in 300 publications in 5 languages.http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n84-46570 A selection is shown below. * '' Bell's Handbooks of English Literature'' (general editor) * '' Milton's Areopagitica'' (1874) * '' Percy Folio Manuscript'' (1867-8) (co-editor) * ''Longer English Poems'' (1872, 1884

(editor) * ''Notes and Essays on Shakespeare'' (1884

* ''Essays and Notes on Shakespeare'' (1892

* ''Folia Litteraria: Essays and Notes on English Literature'' (1893

* '' Snell's Age of Chaucer and Seccombe'' (introduction) * '' Allen's Age of Shakespeare'' * ''

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'' by John Keats with Philological and Explanatory Notes by J.W. Hales (1889

Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900

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Edited works

* ''Complete Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition'' (1893

References

External links

Correspondence from John Wesley Hales, Professor of English at King's College, London, sometime of Louth
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