John Nichol

Wrote Tables of Ancient Literature and History

"John Nichol (8 September 1833 – 11 October 1894), was a Scottish literary academic, and the first Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow.

Among the major works by Nichol were his drama Hannibal (1873), The Death of Themistocles, and other Poems (1881), his Byron in the "English Men of Letters" series (1880), his Robert Burns (1882) and Carlyle (1892).

Nichol was also an enthusiastic Americanist and wrote the ground-breaking American Literature: An Historical Review, 1620–1880 (1882).[1] He visited the United States in 1865, and in 1882 he wrote the article on American literature for the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

In addition to the above, he was also the author of the following works:

Fragments of Criticism, a volume of essays, (1860); Tables of European Literature and History, A.D. 200-1876 (1876); Tables of Ancient Literature and History, (1877); English Composition, a literature primer, (1879); Questions on English Composition, (1890); and two volumes on Lord Bacon's Life and Philosophy for Black's "Series of Philosophical Writers", (1887–89)."

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