Roger Sherman Loomis
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Roger Sherman Loomis (October 31, 1887 – October 1966) was an American scholar of medieval and Arthurian literature. He was a defender of the theory of Celtic origins of the Grail myth. He was Professor at Columbia University.
Roger Sherman Loomis was the son of Henry Patterson Loomis, the great nephew of William Maxwell Evarts and the great-great grandson of American founding father Roger Sherman.
Works
- Illustrations of Medieval Romance On Tiles From Chertsey Abbey (1916)
- Freshman Readings (1925)
- Celtic Myth and Arthurian Romance (1927)
- The Art of Writing Prose (1930) with Mabel Louise Robinson, Helen Hull and Paul Cavanaugh
- Models for Writing Prose (1931)
- The Romance of Tristram and Ysolt (1931) translator
- Arthurian Legends in Medieval Art (1938) with Laura Hibbard Loomis
- Introduction to Medieval Literature, Chiefly in England. Reading List and Bibliography (1939)
- Representative Medieval And Tudor Plays (1942) editor with Henry W. Wells
- The Fight for Freedom: College Reading in Wartime (1943) with Gabriel M. Liegey
- Modern English Readings (1945) editor with Donald Lemen Clark
- Medieval English Verse and Prose (1948) with Rudolph Willard
- Arthurian Tradition And Chretien De Troyes (1949)
- Wales and the Arthurian Legend (1956)
- Medieval Romances (1957) editor with Laura Hibbard Loomis
- Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, A Collaborative History (1959) editor
- The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol (1963)
- The Development of Arthurian Romance (1963)
- A Mirror of Chaucer's World (1965)
- The Arthurian Material in the Chronicles: Especially Those in Great Britain and France (1973) expansion of Robert Huntington Fletcher's 1906 book
- Lanzelet (2005) translator Thomas Kerth, notes by Loomis and Kenneth G. T. Webster
Reference
- Studies In Medieval Literature: A Memorial Collection of Essays (1970)
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