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John Erskine (October 5, 1879 – June 2, 1951) was an American educator and author, pianist and composer. He was an English professor at Amherst College from 1903 to 1909, followed by Columbia University from 1909 to 1937. He was the first president of the Juilliard School of Music. During his tenure at Columbia University he formulated the General Honors Course—responsible for inspiring the influential Great Books movement. He published over 100 books, novels, criticism, and essays including the essay "The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent" (1915). (From Wikipedia) More about John Erskine:
Associated authors:
- Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926
- Trent, William P. (William Peterfield), 1862-1939
- Waller, A. R. (Alfred Rayney), 1867-1922
- Ward, Adolphus William, Sir, 1837-1924
- Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950
- Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904
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1 additional book about John Erskine in the extended shelves:Books by John Erskine: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Erskine, John, 1879-1951, contrib.: The Bookman Anthology of Essays (1923) (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), ed. by John Chipman Farrar, also contrib. by Mary Austin, Arthur E. Bostwick, Benjamin Brawley, Heywood Broun, Abbie Farwell Brown, Floyd Dell, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Zona Gale, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Oliver Herford, Robert Cortes Holliday, Aline Kilmer, Kenneth Macgowan, Thomas L. Masson, Arthur Bartlett Maurice, William McFee, Charles Henry Meltzer, H. L. Mencken, William Lyon Phelps, Keith Preston, Burton Rascoe, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Hugh Walpole, and Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)- Erskine, John, 1879-1951, ed.: Books and Habits From the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951, ed.: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes (based on editions by New York: G. Putnam's Sons, 1907-1921), also ed. by Adolphus William Ward, A. R. Waller, William P. Trent, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and Carl Van Doren (HTML at Bartleby)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Collected Poems, 1907-1922 (New York: Duffield and Co., 1922)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951, contrib.: Contemporary War Poems (New York: American Association for International Conciliation, 1914) (page images here at Penn)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Democracy and Idealism (1917) (page images here at Penn)
Additional books by John Erskine in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Actæon, and other poems (J. Lane company; [etc., etc.], 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Actaeon, and other poems (J. Lane, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Adam and Eve; though he knew better. (Bobbs-Merrill, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: American character and other essays (The Bobbs-Merrill company, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: American character and other essays, selected from the writings of John Erskine (The BobbsMerrill co., 1927) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Appreciations of poetry (Dodd, Mead, 1916), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Appreciations of poetry (W. Heinemann, 1916), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Bachelor--of arts (The Bobbs-Merrill company, 1934) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Books and habits (W. Heinemann, 1922), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Books and habits, from the lectures of Lafcadio Hearn, selected and edited with an introd. by John Erskine. (Dodd, Mead, 1921), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Books and habits, from the lectures of Lafcadio Hearn, selected and edited with an introd. by John Erskine. (Dodd, Mead, 1921), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Books and habits, Lafcadio Hearn (W. Heinemann, 1922), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The Cambridge history of American literature (G.P. Putnam's Sons; [etc., etc.], 1917), also by Carl Van Doren, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and William P. Trent (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The Cambridge history of American literature (The Macmillan company :, 1961), also by Carl Van Doren, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and William P. Trent (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The Cambridge history of American literature (Macmillan ;, 1917), also by Carl Van Doren, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and William P. Trent (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The Cambridge history of American literature. (The Macmillan company;, 1931), also by Carl Van Doren, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and William P. Trent (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The Cambridge history of American literature (G. P. Putnam's sons;, 1927), also by Carl Van Doren, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and William P. Trent (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Collected poems, 1907-1922 (Bobbs-Merrill, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Contemporary war poems (American Association for International Conciliation, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The delight of great books (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1928) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Democracy and ideals (George H. Doran company, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Democracy and ideals; a definition (George H. Doran Company, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Educational plans for the American army abroad. (Association press, 1918), also by Anson Phelps Stokes and Reginald Aldworth Daly (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The Elizabethan lyric (Columbia university press, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The Elizabethan lyric; a study (The Macmillan company, agents, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The Elizabethan lyric : a study (The Macmillan company, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The Elizabethan lyric : a study (Columbia University Press, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: English literature; an illustrated record in four volumes (Heinemann, 1903), also by Richard Garnett and Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Galahad; enough of his life to explain his reputation. (Bobbs-Merrill, 1926) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Galahad : enough of his life to explain his reputation (New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 1926) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: George Edward Woodberry, 1855-1930 ; an appreciation. A list of writings by and about him (The New York public library, 1930), also by Reginald R. Hawkins and New York Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The golden treasury, selected from the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language and arranged with notes (Ginn and Company, 1912), also by Francis Turner Palgrave and William P. Trent (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Great American writers (Holt, 1912), also by William P. Trent (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Great writers of America (Williams and Norgate, 1912), also by William P. Trent (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Great writers of America (Williams and Norgate ;, 1912), also by William P. Trent (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Hearts enduring; a play in one scene. (Duffield & company, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The human life of Jesus (W. Morrow and Company, 1945) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Interpretations of literature (Dodd, Mead and company, 1929), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Interpretations of literature (Dodd, Mead and company, 1915), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Interpretations of literature (Dodd, Mead and company, 1916), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Interpretations of literature (W. Heinemann, 1920), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Interpretations of literature (Dodd, Mead and company, 1916), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Interpretations of literature (Dodd, Mead, 1920), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The kinds of poetry, & other essays. (Bobbs-Merrill, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The kinds of poetry : and other essays (Duffield, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Leading American novelists (H. Holt and company, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Life and literature (Heinemann, 1917), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Life and literature (Dood, Mead and company, 1929), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Life and literature (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1917), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Life and literature (Dodd, Mead, 1919), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Life and literature (Heinemann, 1922), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The literary discipline (Duffield & Company, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The literary discipline (Bobbs-Merrill, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The Literary Discipline (Gutenberg ebook)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The memory of certain persons (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1947) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The moral obligation to be intelligent, and other essays (Duffield and company, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The moral obligation to be intelligent, and other essays (Bobbs-Merrill company, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The moral obligation to be intelligent, and other essays (Duffield and company, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The moral obligation to be intelligent, and other essays. (Duffield, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Must Christians choose between the Bible and prohibition? (New York, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The naughty-Naughtian : being the book of the class of 1900, in Columbia college and containing besides the pictures and autobiographies of the members several letters from the faculty, the president's address, the history, the poem, the prophecy, the valedictory, the yew-tree oration, and the statistics together with other matter of interest to the class. (Printed for the Class of 1900.), also by Columbia University. Class of 1900, William C. De Mille, and Melville Cane (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: A pageant of the thirteenth century, for the seven hundredth anniversary of Roger Bacon (Columbia university press, 1914), also by John J. Coss and Columbia University (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: A pageant of the thirteenth century, for the seven hundredth anniversary of Roger Bacon, given by Columbia University (Columbia University Press, 1914), also by John Jacob Coss and Columbia University (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Penelope's man, the homing instinct. (Bobbs-Merrill, 1928) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Poems of Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats (Ginn and company, 1914), also by Francis Turner Palgrave, William Peterfield Trent, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Poems of Wordsworth, Shelly and Keats : selected from The golden treasury of Francis Turner Palgrave (Ginn and Company, 1914), also by Francis Turner Palgrave, William P. Trent, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951, ed.: Pre-Raphaelite and other Poets, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg ebook)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Pre-Raphaelite and other poets; lectures (Dodd, Mead, 1922), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Pre-Raphaelite and other poets; lectures (Dodd, Mead and company, 1922), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The private life of Helen of Troy (Bobbs-Merrill, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The private life of Helen of Troy. (F. Ungar Pub. Co, 1954) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The private life of Helen of Troy. (F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Prohibition and Christianity; and other paradoxes of the American spirit. (Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill company, [1927], 1927) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Ritari Galahad : Kylliksi elämäkertaa hänen maineensa selvittämiseksi (in Finnish), trans. by Väinö Nyman (Gutenberg ebook)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Selections from Spenser's The faerie queene (Longmans, Green, and co., 1905), also by Edmund Spenser (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: The shadowed hour (Lyric, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: A short history of American literature based upon the Cambridge history of American literature (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1922), also by Carl Van Doren, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and William P. Trent (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: A short history of American literature based upon the Cambridge history of American literature. (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1923), also by Carl Van Doren, Stuart Pratt Sherman, and William Peterfield Trent (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Sincerity, a story of our time (The Bobbs-Merrill company, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Sonata, and other poems (Duffield and company, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Talks to writers (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1920), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Talks to writers (Dodd, Mead and company, 1927), also by Lafcadio Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Tennyson's Idylls of the king. (H. Holt and Co., 1912), also by Alfred Lord Tennyson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Troijan Helena yksityiselämässään (in Finnish), trans. by Aino Tuomikoski (Gutenberg ebook)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Why study, an address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Hobart College, commencement day, June 13, 1927. (Hobart College, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Written English; a guide to the rules of composition (The Century co., 1910), also by Hellen Erskine (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Written English : a guide to the rules of composition (The Century Co., 1913), also by Hellen Erskine (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Written English; a guide to the rules of composition (The Century Co., 1917), also by Helen Erskine (page images at HathiTrust)
- Erskine, John, 1879-1951: Written English; a guide to the rules of composition (Century, 1911), also by Helen Worden (page images at HathiTrust)
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