Charles Harold Herford was an English literary scholar and critic. He is remembered principally for his biography and edition of the works of Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems...

 in 11 volumes. This major scholarly project was published from 1925 onwards by Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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, and completed with Percy and Evelyn Simpson. It took half a century, being agreed on in 1902.

He was born in Manchester. He was Professor at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth University is a university located in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding Member Institution of the former federal University of Wales. As of late 2006, the university had over 12,000 students spread across seventeen academic departments.The university was founded in 1872 as...

 from 1887 to 1901, and Professor of English Literature at Victoria University of Manchester

Victoria University of Manchester

The Victoria University of Manchester was a university in Manchester, England. On 1 October 2004 it merged with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology to form a new entity, "The University of Manchester".-1851 - 1951:The University was founded in 1851 as Owens College,...

 from 1901 to 1921.

Works

• The Social History of the English Drama (1881)
• Studies in the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Sixteenth Century (1886)
• Shakespeare's Masters and As You Like It (1890)
• Spencer's The shepheards calendar (1895)
• The age of Wordsworth (1897)
• The Eversley Shakespeare, in 10 volumes (1899) editor
• English Tales in Verse (1902)
• Robert Browning (1905)
• The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen
  Henrik Ibsen
  Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
  
  (1906) editor
• The Bearing of English Studies upon the National Life (1910) pamphlet
• The Intellectual and Literary History of Germany in the nineteenth Century (1912) in Germany in the Nineteenth Century, with E. C. K. Gonner, J. H. Rose and M. E. Sadler
• Goethe (1913)
• Is there a poetic view of the world? (1916) Warton Lecture on English Poetry
• The lyrical poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1916) editor
• Norse myth in English poetry (1919)
• The Normality of Shakespeare Illustrated in his Treatment of Love and Marriage (1920) pamphlet
• The dramatic poems of Shelley (1922) editor
• Dante and Milton (1924)
• Ben Jonson. ed. C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (Oxford University Press 1925-1953) and Evelyn Simpson
• The narrative poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1927) editor
• English Literature (1927)
• The Post-War Mind of Germany, and other European Essays (1927)
• Wordsworth (1929)

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