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His volumes are: ”The Blossomy Bough”, 1911, and ”The Light Feet of Goats”, 1915.
Peabody, Josephine Preston (Mrs. Lionel Marks). [1874-1922] (3) Born at New York City. Educated at the Girls' Latin School of Boston and at Radcliffe College. She was instructor of English at Wellesley College from 1901 to 1903. Her volumes of lyric and dramatic poetry in their order are: ”The Wayfarers”, 1898; ”Fortune and Men's Eyes”, 1900; ”Marlowe: A Drama”, 1901; ”The Singing Leaves”, 1903; ”The Wings”, 1905; ”The Piper”, a drama, awarded the Stratford-on-Avon Prize, 1910; ”The Singing Man”, 1911; ”The Wolf of Gubbio: A Drama”, 1913; ”The Harvest Moon”, 1916. Miss Peabody, as her volumes show, is a poet of varied gifts and her work is always distinguished by charm of personality and by insight.
Reese, Lizette Woodworth. [1856-1935] (4) Born in Baltimore, Maryland, January 9, 1856. Educated in the schools of that city. She has been for many years a teacher of English in West High School of Baltimore. Her volumes of verse are: ”A Branch of May”, 1887; ”A Handful of Lavender”, 1891; ”A Quiet Road”, 1896; ”A Wayside Lute”, 1909. Miss Reese has a lyric gift unique in its strict Saxon simplicity. Her work has an early, Old-World flavor, a quaintness, a magic of phrase that renders it wholly individual.
Rice, Cale Young. [1872-1943] (3) Born at Dixon, Kentucky, December 7, 1872. Graduated from c.u.mberland University in 1893, and from Harvard University in 1895, where he remained to take the degree of A.M. in 1896.
He is the author of many fine poetic dramas, some of which have had successful stage presentation, and of several volumes of lyric poetry.
In poetic drama his best-known volumes are: ”Charles di Tocca”, 1903; ”David”, 1904; ”Yolanda of Cyprus”, 1906; ”A Night in Avignon”, 1907; ”The Immortal Lure”, 1911; ”Porzia”, 1913. In lyric poetry he has published the following collections: ”From Dusk to Dusk”, 1898; ”Song Surf”, 1900; ”Nirvana Days”, 1908; ”Many G.o.ds”, 1910; ”Far Quests”, 1912; ”At the World's Heart”, 1914; ”Earth and New Earth”, 1916; ”Trails Sunward”, 1917. With the exception of the last two books, Mr. Rice's plays and poems were collected into two volumes in 1915.
Riley, James Whitcomb. [1853-1916] (2) Born in Greenfield, Indiana, in June, 1853, and died at Indianapolis, July, 1916. He occupied a field unique in American literature and probably no poet came as near to the heart of the people.
Popularly known as ”The Hoosier Poet”, because his verse was largely written in the dialect of the common people of his native State of Indiana, he was yet a poet of the truest gifts, and many of his dialect poems bid fair to become cla.s.sic. Mr. Riley did not confine himself, however, to the use of dialect, but wrote some exquisite poetry in other fields.
Unlike many poets, he lived to see himself not only the most beloved and honored citizen of his native State, which annually celebrates ”Riley Day”, but the most widely known and beloved poet of his period in America. Mr. Riley was so voluminous a writer that we have scarcely s.p.a.ce to list all of his t.i.tles, but among the favorite volumes are: ”The Old Swimmin' Hole, and 'Leven More Poems”, 1883; ”Afterwhiles”, 1887; ”Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury”, 1888; ”Rhymes of Childhood”, 1890; ”Green Fields and Running Brooks”, 1892; ”Armazindy”, 1894; ”Love Lyrics”, 1899; ”Home Folks”, 1900; ”Farm Rhymes”, 1901; ”An Old Sweetheart of Mine”, 1902; ”Out to Old Aunt Mary's”, 1904; ”Raggedy Man”, 1907; ”The Little Orphant Annie Book”, 1908; ”When the Frost is on the Punkin, and Other Poems”, 1911; ”Knee Deep in June, and Other Poems”, 1912; and the Biographical Edition of the complete works, 1913.
Roberts, Charles G. D. [1860-1943] (2) Born in Douglas, New Brunswick, January 10, 1860. Educated at the University of New Brunswick. After a period of teaching, he turned to journalism and was editor for a time of ”The Week”, Toronto, and a.s.sociate editor of ”The Ill.u.s.trated American”. Mr. Roberts has been a voluminous writer as novelist, naturalist, and poet.
His volumes of verse are: ”Orion, and Other Poems”, 1880; ”In Divers Tones”, 1887; ”Songs of the Common Day”, 1893; ”The Book of the Native”, 1896; ”New York Nocturnes”, 1898; ”Poems”, 1901; ”The Book of the Rose”, 1903; Collected Poems, 1907.
Robinson, Edwin Arlington. [1869-1935] (3) Born at Head Tide, Maine, December 22, 1869. Educated at Harvard University.
He is the author of ”Children of the Night”, 1897; ”Captain Craig”, 1902; ”The Town Down the River”, 1910; ”The Man against the Sky”, 1916; ”Merlin”, 1917; and of two prose dramas, ”Van Zorn” and ”The Porcupine”.
Mr. Robinson is a psychological poet of great subtlety.
His poems are usually studies of types and he has given us a remarkable series of portraits.
Rogers, Robert Cameron. [1862-1912] (1) Born at Buffalo, New York, January 7, 1862. Died at Santa Barbara, California, while still a young man [sic]. He was chiefly known for his poem, ”The Rosary”, contained in this collection.
Rosenfeld, Morris. [1862-1923] (1) A Yiddish poet who came to America in his early youth.
He has been connected editorially with the Jewish ”Forward” and other papers.
He is chiefly known for his ”Songs of the Ghetto”.
Santayana, George E. [1863-1952] (3) Born in Madrid, Spain, December 16, 1863. He was for several years Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, and has written important works in this field, particularly ”The Sense of Beauty”, 1896, and ”Interpretations of Poetry and Religion”, 1900. His work in poetry has been largely in the sonnet form, of which he has a cla.s.sic mastery.
His volumes of verse are: ”Sonnets, and Other Poems”, 1894; ”Lucifer”, 1899; ”The Hermit of Carmel”, 1901; ”Collected Sonnets”, 1910.
Schauffler, Robert Haven. [1879-1964] (1) Born at Brun, Austria, though of American parentage, on April 8, 1879.
He studied at Northwestern University, but took his degree of B.A.
from Princeton in 1902, and afterwards spent a year in study at the University of Berlin. Mr. Schauffler was a musician before he took up literature and was a pupil of many famous masters of the 'cello.
He has written upon musical subjects, notably in his volume, ”The Musical Amateur”. He has also written several books of travel, such as ”Romantic Germany” and ”Romantic America”. He attracted wide attention by his poem upon immigration, ”The Sc.u.m o' the Earth”, which is the t.i.tle poem of his volume of verse, 1912.
Scollard, Clinton. [1860-1932] (3) Born at Clinton, New York, September 18, 1860. Graduated at Hamilton College in 1881. He afterwards studied at Harvard University and at Cambridge, England. He was Professor of English Literature at Hamilton College, 1888-96. Mr. Scollard has been a voluminous writer, and we must content ourselves with listing his more important books.
His first volume was ”Pictures in Song”, 1884, followed by: ”With Reed and Lyre”, 1888; ”Old and New World Lyrics”, 1888; ”Songs of Sunrise Lands”, 1892; ”The Hills of Song”, 1895; ”The Lutes of Morn”, 1901; ”Lyrics of the Dawn”, 1902; ”The Lyric Bough”, 1904; ”Chords of the Zither”, 1910; ”Sprays of Shamrock”, 1914; ”Poems”, a selection from his complete work, 1914; ”Italy in Arms”, 1915; ”The Vale of Shadows”, 1915; ”Ballads, Patriotic and Romantic”, 1916.
Sherman, Frank Dempster. [1860-1916] (3) Born at Peekskill, New York, May 6, 1860. Died September 19, 1916.
He took the degree of Ph.B. from Columbia University in 1884, and was Professor of Graphics in Columbia School of Architecture from 1904 until his death. He was the author of ”Madrigals and Catches”, 1887; ”Lyrics for a Lute”, 1890; ”Little Folk Lyrics”, 1892; ”Lyrics of Joy”, 1904; and ”A Southern Flight” (with Clinton Scollard), 1906.
Sterling, George. [1869-1926] (3) Born at Sag Harbor, New York, December 1, 1869. Educated at private schools and at St. Charles College, Ellicott City, Maryland.
He is the author of ”The Testimony of the Suns”, 1903; ”A Wine of Wizardry”, 1908; ”The House of Orchids”, 1911; ”Beyond the Breakers”, 1914; ”Exposition Ode”, 1915; and ”Yosemite”, 1915.
Mr. Sterling is a writer to whom the sublimer aspects of nature appeal and he has a style admirably suited to their portrayal.
Stickney, Joseph Trumbull. [1874-1904] (3) Born at Geneva, Switzerland, June 20, 1874. After a youth spent for the most part in Italy and Switzerland, although his family maintained a house in New York, Stickney entered Harvard University in 1891.
Graduating with high cla.s.sical honors in 1895, he returned to Europe to study for the degree Doctorat es Lettres. This was conferred upon him by the University of Paris in 1903, in exchange for his two theses, ”Les Sentences dans la Poesie Grecque d'Homere a Euripide”
and ”De Hermolai Barbari vita atque ingenio dissertationem.” This degree, the highest in the gift of the University, was never before bestowed upon an American. Stickney's volume of poems, ”Dramatic Verses”, had been published in 1902. Leaving Paris in April, 1903, Stickney spent a few months in Greece and then returned to America to become instructor in Greek at Harvard. He died in Boston, October 11, 1904.
His ”Poems” were collected and edited in 1905 by his friends, George Cabot Lodge, William Vaughn Moody, and John Ellerton Lodge.
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