Albert Stanburrough Cook | |
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| Born | March 6, 1853 Montville, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | September 1, 1927 (aged 74) |
| Education | Rutgers College (BA, MS) University of Göttingen University of Leipzig University of Jena (PhD) |
| Occupation | Professor at Yale University |
| Known for | Translation and criticism of Old English works |
| Notable work | The Christ of Cynewulf Judith, an Old English Epic Fragment (crit. ed.) |
Albert Stanburrough Cook (March 6, 1853 – September 1, 1927) was an American philologist, literary critic, and scholar of Old English. He has been called "the single most powerful American Anglo-Saxonist of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."[1][2]
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cook, Albert Stanburrough". Encyclopædia Britannica. 7. (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 71.
- ^ Drout, M. D. C. (2011). "The Cynewulf of Albert S. Cook: Philology and English Studies in America". English Studies. 92 (3): 237–258. doi:10.1080/0013838X.2011.564778. S2CID 154922114.