Kemp Malone was a prolific medievalist, etymologist, philologist, and specialist in Chaucer who was lecturer and then professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University from 1924 to 1956. Born in an academic family, Kemp Malone graduated from Emory College as it then was in 1907, with the ambition of mastering all the languages that impinged upon the development of Middle English. He spent several years in Germany, Denmark and Iceland.

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  • Kemp Malone was a prolific medievalist, etymologist, philologist, and specialist in Chaucer who was lecturer and then professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University from 1924 to 1956. Born in an academic family, Kemp Malone graduated from Emory College as it then was in 1907, with the ambition of mastering all the languages that impinged upon the development of Middle English. He spent several years in Germany, Denmark and Iceland. When World War I broke out he served two years in the United States Army and was discharged with the rank of Captain. Malone served as President of the Modern Language Association, and other philological associations (see link) and was etymology editor of the American College Dictionary, 1947. He resisted the views of Old English poetry as products of a purely oral tradition. He contended that we must look to poets' individual elaboration of traditional structures: "A given poet was reckoned worthy if he handled with skill the stuff of which, by convention, poems must be made" His interests ranged from 10th century manuscripts to the etymology of contemporary comic strip names. American speech, the English language, the historical Arthur, Caedmon and Beowulf (he edited a facsimile of the Thorkelin transcripts, 1951), Deor - all were subjects among his hundreds of publications. He edited and translated a large corpus of medieval poetry: Widsith from the Exeter Book (1936). A sample of his production is Ten Old English Poems put into Modern English alliterative verse, The Johns Hopkins Press; Baltimore 1941 (sample at link) His library, given to Emory University carries his name as a memorial. His papers (30 document boxes) were deposited in 1983 at Johns Hopkins University (Ms 129).
  • Kemp Malone è stato un importante e prolifico studioso del Medio Evo, etimologo, filologo e profondo conoscitore dello scrittore medievale inglese Goffredo Chaucer. Fu lettore e poi professore di letteratura inglese alla Johns Hopkins University dal 1924 al 1956. Nato in una famiglia di accademici, Malone si laureò all'Emory College nel 1907, con l'ambizione di specializzarsi in tutte le lingue che avevano influenzato l'inglese medio. Passò quindi molti anni in Germania, Danimarca e Islanda. Servì poi nell'esercito americano per due anni allo scoppio della Prima guerra mondiale. Fu infine congedato col grado di capitano. Fu poi presidente della Modern Language Association e di altre associazioni filologiche, collaborando poi come etimologo alla realizzazione dell’American College Dictionary. Non accettò mai la vecchia intepretazione secondo cui la poesia inglese era il prodotto di una tradizione puramente orale. I suoi interessi hanno spaziato dai manoscritti di X secolo all'etimologia dei nomi dei moderni fumetti, dalla lingua americana a quella inglese, dalla storicità di re Artù (che a suo parere sarebbe stato il dux romano Lucio Artorio Casto), alle figure di Caedmon, Beowulf e Deor. Pubblicò e tradusse un grande corpus (cioè una raccolta) di poesia medioevale:.
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  • Kemp Malone was a prolific medievalist, etymologist, philologist, and specialist in Chaucer who was lecturer and then professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University from 1924 to 1956. Born in an academic family, Kemp Malone graduated from Emory College as it then was in 1907, with the ambition of mastering all the languages that impinged upon the development of Middle English. He spent several years in Germany, Denmark and Iceland.
  • Kemp Malone è stato un importante e prolifico studioso del Medio Evo, etimologo, filologo e profondo conoscitore dello scrittore medievale inglese Goffredo Chaucer. Fu lettore e poi professore di letteratura inglese alla Johns Hopkins University dal 1924 al 1956. Nato in una famiglia di accademici, Malone si laureò all'Emory College nel 1907, con l'ambizione di specializzarsi in tutte le lingue che avevano influenzato l'inglese medio. Passò quindi molti anni in Germania, Danimarca e Islanda.
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