William Henry Schofield (1870–1920[1]) was an American academic, founder of the Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature.
[2] He was professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, and president of the American-Scandinavian Foundation (1916–1919).
[3][4] He taught Old Norse at Harvard from 1900 and from 1906 was director of the new Comparative Literature department.
[Title : The Blickling homilies] Some of the best known are volume II in Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, Chivalry in English Literature, published 1912 and on Chaucer, Malory, Spenser and Shakespeare, and volume V in the same series, Mythical Bards and The Life of William Wallace published 1920, about Blind Harry, Major's evidence, Master Blair and William Wallace.
[6] In this work on the Libeaus Desconus, Schofield argued that the original of the Fair Unknown theme was Perceval.