Albert Stanislaus Gérard (1920-1996) was a Belgian scholar of comparative literature, specializing in African literature. His African Language Literatures was praised by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o as a "pioneering survey of literature in African languages". Works L'idée romantique de la poésie en Angleterre. Étude sur la théorie de la poésie chez Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats et Shelley, 1955. Translated as English romantic poetry : ethos, structure, and symbol in Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, 1968 Four African literatures: Xhosa, Sotho, Zulu, Amharic, 1971 (ed.) Black Africa, 1972 African language literatures : an introduction to the literary history of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1981 European-language writing in sub-Saharan Africa, 1985 Contexts of African literature, 1990 References 1920 births 1996 deaths Comparative literature academics Belgian Africanists Belgian literary critics Scholars of African literature