Part 41 (1/2)

Anderson, Margaret Steele. [1867-1921] (2) Born in Louisville, Ky., and educated in the public schools of that city, with special courses at Wellesley College. Since 1901 Miss Anderson has been Literary Editor of the 'Evening Post' of Louisville, and is known as one of the most discriminating critics of the South.

She has published but one volume of verse, ”The Flame in the Wind”, 1914, but it is choice in quality. Miss Anderson is also a critic of Art and is the author of ”A Study of Modern Painting”.

Arensberg, Walter Conrad. [1878-1954] (2) Mr. Arensberg has been active in the new movement in poetry and was one of the group who contributed to the yearly collection called ”Others”.

He is the author of ”Idols”, 1916.

Baker, Karle Wilson. [1878-1960] (2) Born in Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 13, 1878. Educated in public and private schools at Little Rock and at the University of Chicago.

Mrs. Baker taught for several years in Virginia and in the High Schools of Little Rock, but in 1901 took up her residence in Texas, whither her family had preceded her, and in 1907 was married to Thomas Ellis Baker, of Nacogdoches, which is her present home.

Mrs. Baker is one of the promising new writers, her first volume of verse, ”Blue Smoke”, having been published in 1919, by the Yale Press.

Bates, Katharine Lee. [1859-1929] (1) Born at Falmouth, Ma.s.s., Aug. 12, 1859. Was educated at Wellesley College, from which she received the degree of A.B., in 1880 and that of A.M. in 1891.

She also had the honorary degree of Litt.D. conferred upon her by Middlebury College and by Oberlin. She was continuously in educational work, teaching first at Dana Hall and then in Wellesley College, where she was professor and head of the English Department.

Miss Bates spent four years in foreign travel and study and published numerous books in the field of education.

Her best-known volumes of verse are: ”America the Beautiful”, 1911; ”Fairy Gold”, 1916; and ”The Retinue”, 1918.

Benet, Stephen Vincent. [1898-1943] (1) <bene t=””> Born at Bethlehem, Pa., 1898. Was educated at the Summerville Academy at Augusta, Ga., and at Yale University, taking the degree of A.B. in 1919 and of A.M. in 1920. His first volume, ”Young Adventure”, was brought out by the Yale University Press in 1918 and he also contributed largely to the ”Yale Book of Student Verse”, published in 1919.

Mr. Benet is a gifted young writer from whom much may be expected.

[Brother of William Rose Benet. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1929 for ”John Brown's Body” and in 1944 (posthumous) for ”Western Star”.

See note to William Rose Benet. -- A. L., 1998.]

Benet, William Rose. [1886-1950] (2) <bene t=””> Born at Fort Hamilton, N.Y. Harbor, Feb. 2, 1886. Graduated at the Academy of Albany, N.Y., in 1904, and took the degree of Ph.B.

from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1907.

In 1912 he was married to Teresa Frances Thompson, of San Francisco, who died in 1919. Mr. Benet was connected for several years with the 'Century Magazine', first as reader and then as a.s.sistant editor, a position which he resigned to enter the Aviation Corps of the Army, during the World War. He is now one of the literary editors of the 'Evening Post', of New York. His successive volumes of verse are: ”Merchants from Cathay”, 1912; ”The Falconer of G.o.d”, 1914; ”The Great White Wall”, 1916; ”The Burglar of the Zodiac”, 1918; and ”Perpetual Light”, 1919.

[Brother of Stephen Vincent Benet. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1942 for ”The Dust Which Is G.o.d”. Both were members of a talented family, in both military and literary affairs, descended from Minorcan settlers who lived in St. Augustine, Florida. -- A. L., 1998.]

Bradley, William Aspinwall. [1878-1939] (1) Born at Hartford, Conn., Feb. 8, 1878. Educated at Columbia University where he received the degree of A.M. in 1900. Married Miss Grace Goodrich in 1903. From 1900 to 1908 Mr. Bradley was art director and literary advisor to McClure, Phillips & Co. and the McClure Co. and left them to become typographical designer and supervisor of printing at the Yale University Press, where he remained until 1917, when America entered the World War. He then became connected with the War Camp Community Service in which he did excellent work for the period of the war. Mr. Bradley is the author of several books and brochures upon art and particularly upon prints and etchings, such as ”French Etchers of the Second Empire”, 1916.

In poetry, he is the author of ”Garlands and Wayfarings”, 1917; ”Old Christmas and Other Kentucky Tales in Verse”, 1917; ”Singing Carr”, 1918.

The last two books are based upon Kentucky folk-tales and ballads gathered by Mr. Bradley among the people of the c.u.mberland Mountains.

Branch, Anna Hempstead. [1875-1937] (3) Born at Hempstead House, New London, Conn. Graduated from Smith College in 1897 and from the American Academy of Dramatic Art, in New York City, in 1900. While at college she began writing poetry and the year after her graduation won the first prize offered by the 'Century Magazine' for a poem written by a college graduate.

This poem, ”The Road 'Twixt Heaven and h.e.l.l”, was printed in the 'Century Magazine' for December, 1898, and was followed soon after by the publication of Miss Branch's first volume, ”The Heart of the Road”, 1901. She has since published two volumes, ”The Shoes That Danced”, 1902, and ”Rose of the Wind”, 1910, both marked by imagination and beauty of a high order.

Burnet, Dana. [1888-1962] (1) Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 3, 1888. Graduated at the Woodward High School of Cincinnati and took the degree of LL.B.

at the Cornell University College of Law in 1911.

Married Marguerite E. Dumary, of Brooklyn, in 1913.

Mr. Burnet has been a.s.sociated with the 'Evening Sun', of New York, since 1911, in various capacities, from that of reporter to editor of the magazine page. He is the author of ”Poems”, 1915, and ”The s.h.i.+ning Adventure”, 1916.

Burr, Amelia Josephine. [1878-?] (2) <new works=”” published=”” in=”” the=”” 1930's=””> Educated at Hunter College in the City of New York. Miss Burr has published successively the following books of verse: ”A Roadside Fire”, 1913; ”In Deep Places”, 1914; ”Life and Living”, 1916; ”The Silver Trumpet”, 1918; and ”Hearts Awake”, 1919. The last two volumes relate chiefly to the World War.

Burt, Maxwell Struthers. [1882-1954] (1) Born at Baltimore, Md., Oct. 18, 1882. Early education at private schools, Philadelphia. Received the degree of A.B. from Princeton University in 1904 and later studied at Merton College, Oxford University.

After two years of teaching at Princeton University, Mr. Burt took up the life of a rancher at Jackson Hole, Wyo., though he usually returns to Princeton for the winter months.

In 1913 he married Katharine Newlin, a writer of fiction.

Mr. Burt is the author of two volumes of verse, ”In the High Hills”, 1914, and ”Songs and Portraits”, 1920; he has also written many short stories.

Bynner, Witter. [1881-1968] (5) Born at Brooklyn, Aug. 10, 1881. Graduated at Harvard University in 1902.

After his graduation, until 1906, he served as a.s.sistant editor of 'McClure's Magazine' and literary editor of McClure, Phillips & Co.

Since that time he has devoted himself exclusively to the writing of poetry and drama, with the exception of a year spent as a special lecturer upon Poetry at the University of California.

While at the University, Mr. Bynner's ”Canticle of Praise”, written to celebrate peace after the World War, was given in the open-air Greek Theatre at Berkeley to an audience of 8000 persons.

Mr. Bynner's first volume, ”An Ode to Harvard and Other Poems”, was published in 1907, and was followed in 1913 by the poetic drama, ”Tiger”; in 1915 by ”The New World”, amplified from his Phi Beta Kappa Poem delivered at Harvard in 1911; in 1917 by ”The Little King”, a poetic drama; in 1917 also by ”Grenstone Poems”, a collection of his lyric work to date.

In 1916, in connection with his friend, Arthur Davison Ficke, Mr. Bynner perpetrated the clever literary hoax of ”Spectra”, a volume of verse in the ultra-modern manner, designed to establish a new ”school” of poetry that should outdo ”Imagism” and other cults then in the public eye. These poems, published under the joint authors.h.i.+p of Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish, created much comment, and in spite of their bizarre features were taken seriously by well-known critics, who were much discomfited when the truth of the matter was known.