Author:Walter William Skeat

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Walter William Skeat (1835–1912)

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English philologist

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. W. S."

Walter William Skeat

Works

• The Bruce; or, The book of the most excellent and noble prince, Robert de Broyss, king of Scots (as Editor, 1870)
• The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (as Editor, 1894)
  • Vol. I - Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems
  • Vol. II - Boethius and Troilus
  • Vol. III - The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; with an Account of the Sources of the Canterbury Tales
  • Vol. IV - The Canterbury Tales: Text
  • Vol. V - Notes to the Canterbury Tales
  • Vol. VI - General Introduction to the Edition, Glossary, and Indexes
• Chaucerian and Other Pieces (as Editor, 1897, a supplement to The Complete Works)
• "‘Snakestones’ and Stone Thunderbolts as Subjects for Systematic Investigation" in Folk-Lore, 23 (1912), pp. 45–79
• An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
• Ælfric's Lives of Saints (as an editor and co-translator)
• Specimens of Early English —.⁠Part II. From Robert of Gloucester to Gower (A.D. 1298 to A.D. 1393), co-authored with R. Morris
• Specimens of English Literature, from the 'Ploughmans Crede' to the 'Shepheardes Calender.
• The Principles of English Etymology
  • First Series. The Native Element
  • Second Series. The Foreign Element
• A Primer of English Etymology
• Twelve Facsimiles of Old-English Manuscripts

Contributions to EB1911

• "Layamon," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Works about Skeat

• "Skeat, Rev. Walter William, Litt.D., LL.D.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Skeat, Walter William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)