COOK

cook, albert stanburrough (1853- ), american scholar, was born on the 6th of march 1853 in montville, morris county, new jersey. he graduated at rutgers college in 1872, and also studied at gottingen and leipzig (1877-1878), and, after spending the years 1879-1881 as associate in english at johns hopkins university, in london, and under sievers at jena, he became in 1882 professor of english in the university of california, and in 1889 professor of english language and literature in yale university. he re-organized the teaching of english in the state of california, and edited many texts for reading in secondary schools; but he is best known for his work in old english and in poetics. he translated, edited, and revised sievers' _old english grammar_ (1885), edited _judith_ (1888), _the christ of cynewulf_ (1900), _asser's life of king alfred_ (1905), and _the dream of the rood_ (1905), and prepared _a first book in old english grammar_ (1894). he also edited, with annotations, _sidney's defense of poesie_ (1890); _shelley's defense of poetry_ (1891); _newman's poetry_ (1891); _addison's criticisms on paradise lost_ (1892); _the art of poetry_ (1892), being the essays of horace, vida and boileau; and _leigh hunt's what is poetry_ (1893); and published _higher study of english_ (1906).