ABSTRACT
Halleck (1859-1936) was Principal of Male High School, Kentucky, an unusual institution granted ‘all the rights and privileges of a university’. He resigned in 1915 to spend more time in writing textbooks, producing histories of American and English literature, books on psychology and physiology, and a number of patriotic studies. He dismissed Donne with a patter derived from Johnson (A History of English Literature, 1900, p. 186).
