Kenneth G. T. Webster

Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1871–1942) was a Canadian-born American literary scholar.

Biography

Kenneth G. T. Webster was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on June 10, 1871, and was educated at Dalhousie University, graduating in 1892. He then took another undergraduate degree at Harvard University, followed by a master's and doctorate there, after which he was immediately offered a faculty position at the institution. Influenced by Archibald MacMechan he became a medievalist and Arthurian scholar, with an interest in castles.

He married Edith Forbes on August 15, 1903, and they had two children. and the eighteenth century Ross-Thompson House in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, which he bought in 1932 to save it from demolition, and is now a museum.

He died at Baker Memorial Hospital in Boston on October 31, 1942.

Works Chief British poets of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (1916) editor with William Allan Neilson Sir Gawain & The Green Knight: Piers the Ploughman (1917) translator with William Alan Nielson Lanzelet: A Romance of Lancelot by Ulrich Von Zatzikhoven (1951) New print with additional notes by Roger Sherman Loomis. Columbia University Press, New York City 2005. Guinevere: A Study of Her Abductions (1951)