Elton, Oliver

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

(b. 1861)

Critical writer, etc. The Augustan Ages (Periods of European Literature) (1890), Michael Drayton (1906); has ed. some of Milton's poems and translated Mythical Books of Saxo Grammaticus' Historia Danica.

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