LIDDELL, MARK HARVEY: 1866-1936.
Mark Harvey Liddell , son of Thomas and Sophronia Swan Liddell, was born in Clearfield, Pa., on Apr. 1, 1866, and graduated from Princeton University in 1887, later studying at Oxford University and the University of Berlin. On Dec. 30, 1890, he married Mary Stanley Field.
After teaching English at the universities of Texas and Louisville and at Butler University in Indianapolis , in 1913 he joined the faculty of Purdue University, where he was successively instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of English until his retirement in 1932. He died on July 28, 1936. He edited and annotated many English classics besides the works listed here, and contributed to learned journals.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- An Introduction to the Scientific Study of English Poetry:
Being the Prolegomena to a Science of English Prosody.
Garden City, N. Y., 1902.
- A Brief Abstract of a New English Prosody, Based Upon the
Laws of English Rhythm. Lafayette, Ind., 1914.
- The Typography of Shakespeare's Midsomer Nightes
Dreame. Indianapolis, 1918.
- Relation of Energy to Frequency as a Determinant of Sound
Quality. 1925.
- Energy Frequency Ratios of Diphthongs. 1927.
- A New Theory of Sound. New York,
1935.
