Lorenzo Sears

Who was Lorenzo Sears?

Lorenzo Sears, A.M., Litt.D. was an American historian and biographer, born at Searsville, Massachusetts. He graduated at Yale in 1861 and at the General Theological Seminary, New York in 1864. He was rector of various parishes in New England until 1885. In the years from 1885 to 1903 he served as professor at the University of Vermont and at Brown University. His writings include:

The History of Oratory

Principles and Methods of Literary Criticism

American Literature in its Colonial and National Periods

The Makers of American Literature

Wendell Phillips

John Hancock

John Hay