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ADAMS, ST. CLAIR. Born in Arkansas, 1883. University education; European
travel; has resided at one time or another in nearly all sections of
America. Miscellaneous literary and editorial work. _A Problem to Be
Solved; Essentials; Good Intentions; It Won't Stay Blowed; Jaw; Never
Trouble Trouble; Ownership; The Rectifying Years; The Syndicated
Smile; Tit for Tat; Wanted--a Man_.
ALEXANDER, GRIFFITH. Born at Liverpool, Eng., Jan. 15, 1868. Educated
in public schools; came to the United States 1887; been connected with
newspapers in great variety of capacities; President of the American
Press Humorists. _Gray Days; Life; The Grumpy Guy_.
ANONYMOUS. _De Sunflower Ain't de Daisy; Hope; I'm Glad; Is It Raining,
Little Flower?; Keep On Keepin' On; Playing the Game; To the Men Who
Lose_.
APPLETON, EVERARD JACK. Born at Charleston, W. Va., Mar. 24, 1872. Very
little schooling, but had advantages of home literary influences and a
good library; at seventeen went into newspaper work in his home town;
later went to Cincinnati, and worked on the daily _Tribune_, then on
the _Commercial Gazette_; later connected with the Cincinnati
_Times-Star_. For five years he wrote daily column of verse and humor;
besides his newspaper work, he has written over one hundred and fifty
stories, hundreds of poems, many songs, and innumerable jokes,
jingles, cheer-up wall cards, and the like. Author of two books of
poetry, "The Quiet Courage" and "With the Colors." With such intense
work his health broke down, and for a number of years he has been a
chronic invalid, but his cheer and his faith are as bright as ever.
_Hold Fast; Meetin' Trouble; Steadfast; The Fighting Failure; The One;
The Woman Who Understands; Unafraid; What Dark Days Do_.
ARNOLD, MATTHEW. Born at Laleham, Middlesex, Eng., Dec. 24, 1822; died
at Liverpool, Apr. 15, 1888. Educated at Winchester, Rugby, and Oxford.
Became Lord Lansdowne's secretary 1847; became inspector of schools
1851; appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford 1857; continental tours to
inspect foreign educational systems 1859 and 1865; assigned a pension of
£250 by Gladstone 1883; lecture trips to America 1883 and 1886; retired
as inspector of schools 1886. Among his works are "Empedocles on Etna,
and Other Poems," "Essays in Criticism" (first and second series),
"Culture and Anarchy," "Literature and Dogma," "Discourses in America,"
and "On the Study of Celtic Literature." _Morality_; _Self-Dependence_.
B
BANGS, JOHN KENDRICK. Born at Yonkers, N.Y., May 27, 1862; died Jan. 21,
1922. Received Ph.B. degree from Columbia 1883; associate editor of
_Life_ 1884-8; has since served in various editorial capacities on
_Harper's Magazine, Harper's Weekly_, and the _Metropolitan Magazine_.
Among his books are "The Idiot," "A House Boat on the Styx," "The
Bicyclers, and Other Farces," "Songs of Cheer," "Line o' Cheer for
Each Day o' the Year," "The Foothills of Parnassus," "A Quest for
Song," and "The Cheery Way." _A Philosopher_; _A Smiling Paradox_;
_If_; _The Kingdom of Man_; _The Richer Mines_; _The Word_; _To
Melancholy_.
BARBAULD, ANNA LETITIA AIKIN. Born at Kibworth-Harcourt, Leicestershire,
Eng., June 20, 1743; died at Stoke-Newington, Mar. 9, 1825. Poet and
essayist. _Life and Death_.
BENÉT, WILLIAM ROSE. Born at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, Feb. 2, 1886.
Graduated from Albany, N.Y., Academy 1904; Ph.B. from Sheffield
Scientific School of Yale University 1907. Reader for _Century
Magazine_ 1907-11; assistant editor of the same 1911-14. 2d Lieutenant
U.S. Air Service 1914-18. Assistant editor of the _Nation's Business_
1919. His books are "Merchants from Cathay," "The Falconer of God,"
"The Great White Wall," and "The Burglar of the Zodiac." _His Ally_;
_Mistress Fate_.
BENJAMIN, PARK. Born at Demerara, British Guiana, Aug. 14, 1809; died at
New York City, Sept. 12, 1864. Connected with various periodicals.
_Press On_.
BINNS, HENRY BRYAN. _Ultimate Act_.
BRADFORD, GAMALIEL. Born at Boston, Mass., Oct. 9, 1863; privately
tutored till 1882; entered Harvard College 1882 but was obliged to
leave almost immediately because of ill health. Contributor of essays
and poems to various magazines; has a remarkable insight into the
characters of historical figures, and in a few pages reveals their
inner souls. Among his books are "Types of American Character," "A
Pageant of Life," "The Private Tutor," "Between Two Masters," "Matthew
Porter," "Lee, the American," "Confederate Portraits," "Union
Portraits," "A Naturalist of Souls," and "Portraits of American
Women." _God; Heinelet; The Joy of Living_.
BRALEY, BERTON. Born at Madison, Wis., Jan. 29, 1882. Graduated from the
University of Wisconsin 1905; reporter on the Butte, Mont., _Inter
Mountain_ 1905-6; later with the Butte _Evening News_ and the
Billings, Mont., _Gazette_; with the New York _Evening Mail_ 1909;
associate editor of _Puck_ 1910; free lance writer since 1910; special
correspondent in Northern Europe 1915-16; in France, England, and
Germany 1918-19. Among his books are "Sonnets of a Freshman," "Songs
of a Workaday World," "Things as They Are," "A Banjo at Armageddon,"
"In Camp and Trench," and "Buddy Ballads." _Opportunity; Playing the
Game; Start Where You Stand; Success; The Conqueror_.
BRANCH, ANNA HEMPSTEAD. Born at New London, Conn. Graduated at Adelphi
Academy, Brooklyn, 1893, from Smith College 1897, and from the
American Academy of Dramatic Art, New York, 1900. Among her books are
"The Heart of the Road," "The Shoes That Danced," "Rose of the Wind,"
and "Nimrod, and Other Poems." _Gladness_.
BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. Born at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, Eng., Mar. 6,
1806; died at Florence, Italy, June 30, 1861. A semi-invalid all her
life. Married Robert Browning 1846, and resided in Italy for the
remainder of her life. Author of "Casa Guidi Windows," "Aurora Leigh,"
and "Sonnets from the Portuguese." _Cares_.
BROWNING, ROBERT. Born at Camberwell, Eng., May 7, 1812; died at Venice,
Italy, Dec. 12, 1889. Educated at home and at London University; well
trained in music. Travel in Russia 1833; considered diplomatic career;
trip to Italy 1838; married Elizabeth Barrett 1846, and during her
life time resided chiefly at Florence, Italy. After her death in 1861,
he lived in London and Venice. Among his works are "Pauline,"
"Paracelsus," "Strafford," "Sordello," "A Blot in the 'Scutcheon,"
"Colombe's Birthday," "Dramatis Personae," "A Soul's Tragedy," "Luna,"
"Men and Women," "The Ring and the Book," "Fifine at the Fair," "The
Inn-Album," "Dramatic Idyls," and "Asolando." _Man, Bird, and God;
Pippa's Song; Prospice; Rabbi Ben Ezra_.
BURNS, ROBERT. Born at Alloway, near Ayr, Scotland, Jan. 25, 1759; died
at Dumfries, Scotland, July 21, 1796. Received little education;
drudgery on a farm at Mt. Oliphant 1766-77; on a farm at Lochlea
1777-84, during which time there was a period of loose living and bad
companionship; at the death of his father he and his brother Gilbert
rented Mossgiel farm near Mauchline, where many of his best poems were
written; winter of 1786-7 he visited Edinburgh, and was received into
the best society; winter of 1787-8 revisited Edinburgh but rather
coolly received by Edinburgh society; 1788 married Jean Armour, by
whom he had previously had several children. Took farm at Ellisland
1788; became an excise officer 1789. Removed to Dumfries 1791; later
years characterized by depression and poverty. Some of his best-known
poems are "The Holy Fair," "The Cotter's Saturday Night," and "Tam
O'Shanter"; wrote many of the most popular songs in the English
language. _A Man's a Man for A' That; Borrowing Trouble; The Gift_.
BYRON, LORD (George Gordon Byron). Born at London, Jan. 22, 1788; died
at Missolonghi, Greece, Apr. 19, 1824, and buried in parish church at
Hucknell, near Newstead. Born with a deformed foot; much petted as a
child; inherited title and estate at death of his granduncle, William,
fifth Lord Byron, 1798. Studied at Harrow and at Cambridge University,
receiving M.A. degree 1808. Traveled in Portugal, Spain, Greece, and
Turkey 1809-11. In 1815 married Anna Milbanke, who left him 1816. In
1816 met Miss Clairmont at Geneva, who bore him an illegitimate
daughter, Allegra, 1817; in 1819 met Teresa, Countess Guiccioli, at
Venice, and remained with her during his stay in Italy. Joined the
Greek insurgents 1823, and died of a fever in their cause of freedom
from the Turks. Among his works are "Hours of Idleness," "English
Bards and Scotch Reviewers," "Childe Harold," "The Giaour," "The
Corsair," "The Prisoner of Chillon," "Cain," "Manfred," and "Don
Juan." _Serenity_.
C
CARLYLE, THOMAS. Born at Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Dec. 4,
1795; died at Chelsea, London, Feb. 4, 1881. Educated at Annan Grammar
School and Edinburgh University; mathematical tutor at Annan 1814;
teacher at Kirkcaldy 1816; went to Edinburgh to study law 1819; tutor
in Buller family 1822-4; married Jane Welsh 1826; lived successively
at Comely Bank, Edinburgh, and Craigenputtoch 1828-34; moved to
Chelsea 1834; and remained there the rest of his life. Elected Lord
Rector of Edinburgh University 1865. Among his works are "Life of
Schiller," "Sartor Resartus," "The French Revolution," "Chartism,"
"Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History," "Life and Letters
of Oliver Cromwell," "Life of Sterling," "Latter-Day Pamphlets," and
"Frederick the Great." _To-Day_.
CLOUGH, ARTHUR HUGH. Born at Liverpool, Eng., Jan. 1, 1819; died at
Florence, Italy, Nov. 13, 1861. Went to school at Rugby and Oxford;
accepted headship of University Hall, London, 1849; came to America
1852; health began to fail 1859. _Say Not the Struggle Nought
Availeth_.
COATES, FLORENCE EARLE. Born at Philadelphia, Pa.; educated at private
schools and at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, France; studied also
at Brussels. President of the Browning Society of Philadelphia
1895-1903 and 1907-8; a founder of the Contemporary Club,
Philadelphia, 1886; member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants,
and Colonial Dames of America. Among her books are "Mine and Thine,"
"Lyrics of Life," and "The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems." _A Hero;
Courage; Per Aspera_.
COOKE, EDMUND VANCE. Born at Port Dover, Canada, June 5, 1866. Educated
principally at common schools. He began to give lecture entertainments
1893, and has been for years one of the most popular lyceum men before
the public. Frequent contributor of poems, stories, and articles to
the leading magazines. His poem "How Did You Die?" has attained a
nation-wide popularity. Among his books are "Just Then Something
Happened," "The Story Club," "Told to the Little Tot," "Chronicles of
the Little Tot," "I Rule the House," "Impertinent Poems," "Little,
Songs for Two," "Rimes to be Read," "The Uncommon Commoner," and "A
Patch of Pansies." _How Did You Die?; Laugh a Little Bit_.
CROSBY, ERNEST HOWARD. Born at New York City, Nov. 4, 1856; died there
Jan. 3, 1907. Graduated from University of New York 1876, and from
Columbia Law School 1878; lawyer in New York 1878-89; judge of
international court at Alexandria, Egypt, 1889-94; returned to New
York 1894, and interested himself in social reform. Among his books
are "Plain Talk in Psalm and Parable," "Captain Jenks, Hero," "Swords
and Plowshares," "Tolstoi and His Message," and "Labor and Neighbor."
_Life and Death_.
D
DEKKER, THOMAS. Born at London, about 1570; died about 1641. Little is
known of his life; imprisoned several times; had literary quarrels
with Ben Jonson. Lived in the great period of the English drama (the
age of Shakespeare); wrote many of his plays in collaboration with
other writers of the period. Among his best-known plays are "The
Shoe-makers' Holiday" and "Old Fortunatus." _The Happy Heart_.
DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN. Born at New York City, Aug. 7, 1795; died there
Sept. 21, 1820. Author of "The Culprit Fay" and "The American Flag."
_The Man Who Frets at Worldly Strife_.
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ELIOT, GEORGE (Mary Ann Evans Lewes Cross). Born at Arbury Farm,
Warwickshire, Eng., Nov. 22, 1819; died at Chelsea, London, Dec. 22,
1880. Educated at Nuneaton and Coventry; assistant editor of the
_Westminster Review_ 1851-3. Lived with George Henry Lewes from 1854
until his death in 1878; married John Walter Cross in 1880. Among her
books (mostly novels) are "Adam Bede," "The Mill on the Floss," "Silas
Marner," "Romola," "Felix Holt," "The Spanish Gypsy," "Middlemarch,"
"Daniel Deronda," and "Impressions of Theophrastus Such." _You May
Count That Day_.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Born at Boston, Mass., May 25, 1803; died at
Concord, Mass., Apr. 27, 1882. Graduated at Harvard College 1821,
working his way; taught school; began to study for the ministry 1823;
licensed to preach 1826; trip to the South for his health 1827-8;
Unitarian minister in Boston 1829-32; European travel 1832-3; settled
at Concord 1834; lectured extensively for over thirty years.
Contributed to the _Dial_ 1840-4; visited Europe 1847-8 and 1872-3.
Lectured at Harvard 1868-70. Some of his works are "Nature," "The
American Scholar," "Essays" (first and second series), "Representative
Men," "English Traits," "The Conduct of Life," and "Society and
Solitude." _Duty; Fable_.
F
FOLEY, JAMES WILLIAM. Born at St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 4, 1874. Educated at
the University of South Dakota. Member of Masonic Order and Past Grand
Master of Masons. Had early ranch experience; knew Theodore Roosevelt
during his ranching days. Began newspaper work on the Bismarck, N.
Dak., _Tribune_ 1892. During the Great War he served seventeen months
in army camps as an entertainer and inspirational lecturer, traveling
fifty thousand miles and addressing a quarter of a million men. For
fifteen years he has been lecturing and writing. His work includes
books of verse, humorous sketches, and plays. At present associate
editor of the Pasadena, Cal., _Evening Post._ Among his books are
"Boys and Girls," "Tales of the Trail," "Friendly Rhymes," "Voices of
Song," "Letters of William Green," and "Songs of Schooldays." _A Hymn
to Happiness; A Toast to Merriment; Days of Cheer; Friends of Mine;
One of These Days; Song of Endeavor; Undismayed_.
FOSS, SAM WALTER. Born at Candia, N.H., June 19, 1858; died in 1911.
Graduated from Brown University 1882; editor 1883-93; general writer
1893-8; librarian at Somerville, Mass., from 1898; lecturer and reader
of his own poems. Among his books are "Back Country Poems," "Whiffs
from Wild Meadows," "Dreams in Homespun," "Songs of War and Peace,"
and "Songs of the Average Man." _The Firm of Grin and Barrett_, 118;
_The House by the Side of the Road_, 2.
FOWLER, ELLEN THORNEYCROFT (The Honorable Mrs. Alfred Felkin). Elder
daughter of 1st Viscount Wolverhampton; married to Alfred Laurence
Felkin 1903. Among her books are "Verses Grave and Gay," "Verses Wise
and Otherwise," "Cupid's Garden," "Concerning Isabel Carnaby," "A
Double Thread," "The Farringdons," "Love's Argument," "Place and
Power," "Miss Fallowfield's Fortune," "The Wisdom of Folly," "Her
Ladyship's Conscience," and "Ten Degrees Backward." _The Wisdom of
Folly_, 61.
G
GARRISON, THEODOSIA. Born at Newark, N.J., 1874. Educated at private
schools at Newark. Married Joseph Garrison of Newark 1898; married
Frederick J. Faulks of Newark 1911. Among her books are "The Joy of
Life, and Other Poems," "Earth Cry, and Other Poems," and "The
Dreamers." _A Prayer_, 156; _One Fight More_, 145.
GATES, ELLEN M. HUNTINGTON. Born at Torrington, Conn., 1834; died at
New York City, Oct. 12, 1920. Schooling at Hamilton, N.Y. Among her
books are "Treasures of Kurium," "The Dark," "To the Unborn Peoples,"
and "The Marble House." _The Bars of Fate_, 158; _Your Mission_, 120.
GILLILAN, STRICKLAND W. Born at Jackson, Ohio, Oct. 9, 1869. Attended
Ohio University to junior year; began newspaper work on the Jackson,
Ohio, _Herald_ 1887; and has since been on the staffs of many
newspapers and magazines in various capacities. Writer of humorous
verse, and popular lyceum lecturer. Among his books are "Including
Finnigan," "Including You and Me," and "A Sample Case of Humor." _Keep
Sweet_, 220.
GILMAN, CHARLOTTE PERKINS. Born at Hartford, Conn., July 3, 1860.
Excellent home instruction; school attendance scant; real education
reading and thinking, mainly in natural science, history, and
sociology. Writer and lecturer on humanitarian topics, especially
along lines of educational and legal advancement. _The Forerunner_, a
monthly magazine, entirely written by her, published for seven years
from 1910. Among her publications are "In This Our World," "Women and
Economics," "Concerning Children," "The Home," "Human Work," "The
Yellow Wallpaper," "The Man-made World," "Moving the Mountain," "What
Diantha Did," and "The Crux." _Resolve; The Lion Path_.
GLAENZER, RICHARD BUTLER. Born at Paris, France, Dec. 15, 1876. Educated
at the Hill School and Yale. Interior decorator, poet, and essayist.
At present scenario writer at Hollywood, California. Author of "Beggar
and King" and "Literary Snapshots." _Man or Manikin_.
GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany,
Aug. 28, 1749; died at Weimar, Mar. 22, 1832. Famous poet, dramatist,
and prose writer. Among his well-known works are "The Sorrows of Young
Werther," "Wilhelm Meister," "Hermann and Dorothea," and "Faust."
_Lose the Day Loitering_.
GRAY, THOMAS. Born at London, Dec. 26, 1716; died at Cambridge, July 30,
1771. Educated at Eton and Cambridge; went with Horace Walpole on trip
to Continent 1739-41; became professor of modern history at Cambridge
1768, but did not teach. A man singularly retiring and shy throughout
his life. Among his well-known poems are "Ode on a Distant Prospect of
Eton College," "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," "The Progress
of Poetry," "The Bard," "The Fatal Sisters," and "The Descent of
Odin." _Opening Paradise_.
GUEST, EDGAR ALBERT. Born at Birmingham, Eng., Aug. 20, 1881; brought to
the United States 1891; educated in grammar and high schools of
Detroit, Mich. Connected with the Detroit _Free Press_ since 1895;
syndicates a daily poem in several hundred newspapers. His books are
"A Heap o' Livin'," "Just Folks," "Over Here," "Path to Home," and
"When Day is Done." _Can't; How Do You Tackle Your Work?; It Couldn't
Be Done; See It Through; There Will Always Be Something to Do; The
Things That Haven't Been Done Before; The World Is Against Me; To a
Young Man_.
H
HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST. Born at Gloucester, Eng., Aug. 23, 1849; died
July 11, 1903. Educated at the Crypt Grammar School at Gloucester.
Afflicted with physical infirmity, and in hospital at Edinburgh
1874--an experience which gave the material for his "Hospital
Sketches." Went to London 1877; edited _London_ (a magazine of art)
1882-6; the _Scots Observer_ (which became the _National Observer_)
1888-93; and the _New Review_ 1893-8. Besides three plays which he
wrote in collaboration with Robert Louis Stevenson, he is the author
of "Views and Reviews," "Hospital Sketches," "London Voluntaries" and
"Hawthorn and Lavenden" _Invictus_, 5; _Praise the Generous Gods for
Giving_, 194; _Thick Is the Darkness_, 151.
HERBERT, GEORGE. Born at Montgomery Castle, Wales, Apr. 3, 1593; died at
Bemerton, near Salisbury, Eng., Feb., 1633. Graduated from Cambridge
1613; took M.A. degree 1616. He was in high favor at court; appointed
by the King as rector to Bemerton Church in 1630, and there wrote the
religious poems for which he is remembered. _The Gifts of God_, 211.
HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT. Born at Belchertown, Mass., July 24, 1819; died
at New York City, Oct. 21, 1881. Editor of the _Springfield
Republican_ 1849-66; editor-in-chief of _Scribner's Monthly_ (which
later became the _Century Magazine_). Among his poems are "Kathrina"
and "Bitter-Sweet." _Gradatim_, 200.
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Born at Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 29, 1809; died
there Oct. 7, 1894. Physician; professor of anatomy and physiology in
the medical school of Harvard University 1847-82. Some of his
best-known poems are "Bill and Joe," "The Deacon's Masterpiece," and
"The Chambered Nautilus." Of his three novels "Elsie Venner" is the
best known. His "Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table," "Professor at the
Breakfast-Table," "Poet at the Breakfast-Table," and "Over the
Tea-Cups" all appeared originally in the _Atlantic Monthly_. _The
Chambered Nautilus_, 30.
HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH. Born at Southgate, Eng., Oct. 19, 1784; died
at Putney, Eng., Aug. 28, 1859. Imprisoned for radical political
views; writer of popular poems and essays, _Abou Ben Adhem_, 133.
I
INGALLS, JOHN JAMES. Born at Middleton, Mass., Dec. 29, 1833; died at
Las Vegas, N. Mex., Aug. 16, 1900. Educated at Williams College;
admitted to the bar 1857; moved to Kansas; member of the state senate
1861; U.S. senator from Kansas 1873-91. _Opportunity_, 54.
J
JONSON, BEN. Born at Westminster, Eng., about 1573; died Aug. 6, 1637.
Went to school at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields and Westminster.
Shakespeare played one of the roles in his comedy "Every Man in His
Humour" 1598. He went to France as the tutor of the son of Sir Walter
Raleigh 1613; was in the favor of the court, from which he received a
pension. Attacked with palsy 1626, and later with dropsy, and confined
to his bed most of his later years. Well-known plays besides the one
cited above are "Epicoene," "The Alchemist," "Volpone," "Bartholomew
Fair," and "Cataline"; author of the lyric "Drink to Me Only With
Thine Eyes," and a volume of criticism "Timber." _The Noble Nature_,
177.
K
KEATS, JOHN. Born at London, Oct. 29, 1795; died at Rome, Feb. 23, 1821.
Went to Enfield School; apprenticed to a druggist 1811-15; student in
London hospitals 1815-17; passed examination at Apothecaries Hall
1816, but never practised. Walking trip to Scotland 1818; his health
rapidly failed, and he sailed to Naples in Sept. 1820, and then went
to Rome, where, until his death, he was attended by his friend Severn.
Among his well-known poems are "On First Looking into Chapman's
Homer," "Endymion," "The Eve of St. Agnes," "Isabella," "La Belle Dame
Sans Merci," "Ode to Psyche," "Ode to a Grecian Urn," "Ode to a
Nightingale," "Ode on Melancholy," "Lamia," "Ode to Autumn," and
"Hyperion." _Fairy Song_, 193.
KIBBY, WILLIAM JUDSON. Born at Knoxville, Tenn., Mar. 12, 1876. Educated
in Knoxville Public Schools; graduate of the Sheldon School. Character
analyst and industrial psychologist; newspaper and magazine
contributor. President of the Lion's Club of New York; thirty-second
degree Mason. _Appreciation_, 219; _Helpin' Out_, 96.
KING, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, JR. Born at St. Joseph, Mich., Mar. 17, 1857;
died at Bowling Green, Ky., Apr. 7, 1894. At an early age showed a
remarkable talent in music; a public entertainer on the piano and
reciter of his own verse. His poems collected in "Ben King's Verse."
_If I Should Die_, 13; _The Pessimist_, 166.
KIPLING, RUDYARD. Born at Bombay, India, Dec. 30, 1865. Educated in
England at United Service College; returned to India 1880; assistant
editor of _Civil and Military Gazette_ 1882-89; returned to England
1889; resided in the United States for several years; has traveled in
Japan and Australasia. Received the Noble Prize for Literature 1907;
honorary degrees from McGill University, Durham, Oxford, and
Cambridge. Among his books are "Departmental Ditties," "Plain Tales
from the Hills," "Under the Deodars," "Phantom' Rickshaw," "Wee Willie
Winkle," "Life's Handicap," "The Light That Failed," "Barrack-Room
Ballads," "The Jungle Book," "The Second Jungle Book," "The Seven
Seas," "Captains Courageous," "The Day's Work," "Kim," "Just So
Stories," "Puck of Pook's Hill," "Actions and Reactions," "Rewards and
Fairies," "Fringes of the Fleet," and "Sea Warfare." _If_, 4; _When
Earth's Last Picture Is Painted_, 230.
KISER, SAMUEL ELLSWORTH. Born at Shippenville, Pa. Educated in Pennsylvania
and Ohio. Began newspaper work in Cleveland, and from 1900 until 1914
was editorial and special writer for the Chicago _Record-Herald_.
Noted for his humorous sketches, which have been widely syndicated.
His poem "Unsubdued" is, like Henley's "Invictus," a splendid
portrayal of undaunted courage in the face of defeat. Among his books
are "Georgie," "Charles the Chauffeur," "Love Sonnets of an Office
Boy," "Ballads of the Busy Days," "Sonnets of a Chorus Girl," "The
Whole Glad Year," and "The Land of Little Care." _A Little Prayer;
December 31; Faith; It May Be; My Creed; The Fighter; Unsubdued_.
KNOX, J. MASON. _Co-operation_.
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LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Born at Portland, Me., Feb. 27, 1807; died
at Cambridge, Mass., Mar. 24, 1882. Graduated from Bowdoin College
1825; traveled in Europe 1826-9; professor of modern languages at
Bowdoin 1829-34; again visited Europe 1835-6; professor of modern
languages and belles lettres at Harvard College 1836-54; European
travel 1868-9. Some of his best-known poems are "A Psalm of Life,"
"The Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "The Skeleton
in Armor," "The Bridge," "Evangeline," "The Building of the Ship,"
"Hiawatha," "The Courtship of Miles Standish," and "Tales of a Wayside
Inn"; author of two novels, "Hyperion" and "Kavanagh"; translator of
Dante's "Divine Comedy." _A Psalm of Life; The Arrow and the Song_.
LOVELACE, RICHARD. Born in Kent, 1618; died at London, 1658. Educated
at Oxford; imprisoned for support of the royalist cause 1642 and 1648;
released from prison after the execution of King Charles I, but his
estate had been ruined and he died in poverty. _To Althea from
Prison_.
M
MACKAY, CHARLES. Born at Perth, Eng., Mar. 27, 1814; died at London,
Dec. 24, 1889. Editor of the Glasgow _Argus_ 1844-47 and of the
_Illustrated London News_ 1852-59; New York correspondent of the
London _Times_ during the Civil War. _Clear the Way; Cleon and I_.
M'LEAN, JANE. _Slogan_.
MALLOCH, DOUGLAS. Born at Muskegon, Mich., May 5, 1877. Common school
education; reporter on the Muskegon _Daily Chronicle_ 1886-1903;
member of the editorial staff of the _American Lumberman_ from 1903;
associate editor from 1910; contributes verse relating to the forest
and lumber camps to various magazines; is called "The Poet of the
Woods," He is author of "In Forest Land," "Resawed Fables," "The
Woods," "The Enchanted Garden," and "Tote-Road and Trail." _Be the
Best of Whatever You Are; To-Day_.
MALONE, WALTER. Born in De Soto Co., Miss., Feb. 10, 1866; died May 18,
1915. Received the degree of Ph.B. from the University of Mississippi
1887; practised law at Memphis, Tenn., 1887-97; literary work in New
York City 1897-1900; then resumed law practice at Memphis; became
Judge of second Circuit Court, Shelby Co., Tenn., 1905, and served
till his death. Annual exercises held in the Capleville schools in his
honor. An excellent edition of his poems, issued under the direction
of his sister, Mrs. Ella Malone Watson of Capleville, Tenn., is
published by the John P. Morton Co., of Louisville, Ky. _Opportunity_.
MARKHAM, EDWIN. Born at Oregon City, Ore., Apr. 23, 1852. Went to
California 1857; worked at farming and black-smithing, and herded
cattle and sheep, during boyhood. Educated at San José Normal School
and two Western colleges; special student in ancient and modern
literature and Christian sociology; principal and superintendent of
schools in California until 1899. Mr. Markham is one of the most
distinguished of American poets and lecturers. His poem "The Man with
the Hoe" in his first volume of poems is world-famous, and has been
heralded by many as "the battle-cry of the next thousand years." He
has sounded in his work the note of universal brotherhood and
humanitarian interest, and has been credited as opening up a new
school of American poetry appealing to the social conscience, where
Whitman appealed only to the social consciousness. His books are "The
Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems," "Lincoln, and Other Poems," "The
Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems," and "Gates of Paradise, and
Other Poems." His book "California the Wonderful" is a volume of
beautiful prose giving a historical, social, and literary study of the
state. _A Creed; Duty; Opportunity; Preparedness; Rules for the Road;
The Stone Rejected; Two at a Fireside; Victory in Defeat_.
MASON, WALT. Born at Columbus, Ontario, May 4, 1862. Self-educated. Came
to the United States 1880; was connected with the Atchison _Globe_
1885-7; later with Lincoln, Neb., _State Journal_; editorial
paragrapher of the _Evening News_, Washington, 1893; with the Emporia,
Kan., _Gazette_ since 1907. Writes a daily prose poem which is
syndicated in over two hundred newspapers, and is believed to have the
largest audience of any living writer. Among his books are "Rhymes of
the Range," "Uncle Walt," "Walt Mason's Business Prose Poems,"
"Rippling Rhymes," "Horse Sense," "Terse Verse," and "Walt Mason, His
Book." _Lions and Ants; The Has-Beens; The Welcome Man_.
MILLER, JOAQUIN. Born in Indiana, Nov. 11, 1841; died Feb. 17, 1913. He
went to Oregon 1854; was afterwards a miner in California; studied
law; was a judge in Grant County, Oregon, 1866-70. For a while he was
a journalist in Washington, D.C.; returned to California 1887. He is
the author of various books of verse, and is called "The Poet of the
Sierras." _Columbus; To Those Who Fail_.
MILTON, JOHN. Born at London, Dec. 9, 1608; died there Nov. 8, 1674.
Attended St. Paul's School; at Cambridge 1625-32. At Horton, writing
and studying, 1632-38. In 1638 went to Italy; met Galileo in Florence.
During the great Civil War wrote pamphlets against the Royalists; was
made Latin Secretary to the new Commonwealth 1649; became totally
blind 1652. Until his third marriage in 1663, his domestic life had
been rendered unhappy by the undutifulness of his three daughters.
Among his works are "L'Allegro," "Il Penseroso," "Comus," "Lycidas,"
"Paradise Lost," "Paradise Regained," and "Samson Agonistes." _The
Inner Light_.
MORGAN, ANGELA. Born at Washington, D.C. Educated under private tutors
and at public schools; took special work at Columbia University. Began
early as a newspaper writer, first with the Chicago _American_; then
with the Chicago _Journal_, and New York and Boston papers. She is a
member of the Poetry Society of America, The MacDowell Club, Three
Arts, and the League of American Pen Women. She is one of the most
eloquent readers before the public to-day; was a delegate to the
Congress of Women at The Hague 1915, at which she read her poem
"Battle Cry of the Mothers." Her four books of poems are "The Hour Has
Struck," "Utterance, and Other Poems," "Forward, March!" and "Hail,
Man!" and a fifth is soon to be published. Her book of fiction "The
Imprisoned Splendor" contains well-known stories ("What Shall We Do
with Mother?" "The Craving," "Such Is the Love of Woman," and "The
Making of a Man"), some of which appeared previously in magazines. A
novel is shortly to be published. _A Song of Life; A Song of
Thanksgiving; Grief; Know Thyself; Stand Forth!; When Nature Wants a
Man; Work_.
MORRIS, JOSEPH. Born in Ohio 1889. College and university education;
professor of English and lecturer on literary subjects; newspaper and
magazine contributor; connected with publishing houses since 1917 in
various editorial capacities. _A Lesson from History; Borrowed
Feathers; Can You Sing a Song?; If You Can't Go Over or Under, Go
Round; Philosophy for Croakers; Swellitis; The Glad Song; The
Unmusical Soloist; Two Raindrops_.
N
NEIHARDT, JOHN GNEISENAU. Born near Sharpsburg, Ill., Jan. 8, 1881.
Completed the scientific course at the Nebraska Normal College 1897;
received the degree of Litt.D. from the University of Nebraska 1917.
Declared Poet Laureate of Nebraska by a joint resolution of the
Legislature, Apr. 1921, in recognition of the significance of the
American epic cycle upon which he has been working for eight years.
Winner of the prize of five hundred dollars offered by the Poetry
Society of America for the best volume of poetry ("The Song of Three
Friends") published by an American in 1919. Has been literary critic
of the Minneapolis _Journal_ since 1912. Among his books are "The
Divine Enchantment," "The Lonesome Trail," "A Bundle of Myrrh,"
"Man-Song," "The River and I," "The Dawn-Builder," "The Stranger at
the Gate," "Death of Agrippina," "Life's Lure," "The Song of Hugh
Glass," "The Quest," "The Song of Three Friends," "The Splendid
Wayfaring," and "Two Mothers." _Battle Cry_, 148; _Envoi_, 196; _Let
Me Live Out My Years_, 127; _Prayer for Pain_, 208.
NETTE, JEAN. _Challenge_, 119.
NEWBOLT, SIR HENRY. Born at Bilston, Eng., June 6, 1862. Educated at
Oxford; practised law until 1899; editor of _Monthly Review_ 1900-04;
Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature; created a Knight
1915. Among his books are "Taken from the Enemy," "Mordred," "Admirals
All," "The Island Race," "The Old Country," "The Book of Cupid,"
"Poems Old and New," and "The New June." _Play the Game_, 162.
NOYES, ALFRED. Born in Staffordshire, Eng., Sept. 16, 1880. Educated at
Oxford; received honorary degree of Litt.D. from Yale 1913; gave the
Lowell Lectures in America on "The Sea in English Poetry" 1913;
elected to Professorship of Modern Poetry at Princeton 1914;
temporarily attached to the foreign office 1916. Among his books are
"Collected Poems" (three volumes), "The Elfin Artist," "The New
Morning," "The Lord of Misrule," "A Belgian Christmas Eve," "The
Wine-Press," "Tales of the Mermaid Tavern," "Sherwood," "The Enchanted
Island," "Drake," "Beyond the Desert," "Walking Shadows," "Open
Boats," "The Golden Hynde." "The Flower of Old Japan," and "A Salute
from the Fleet." _The New Duckling_, 34.
O
O SHEEL, SHEAMUS. Born at New York City, Sept. 19, 1886. Educated in the
New York City grammar and high schools; took special work in English
and history at Columbia 1906-8. Member of the Poetry Society of
America and the Gaelic Society. Interested in political and civic
reforms. Among his books are "Blossomy Bough" and "The Light Feet of
Goats." _He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed_.
P
PROCTER, BRYAN WALLER ("Barry Cornwall"). Born at Leeds, Eng., Nov. 21,
1787; died Oct. 5, 1874. Educated at Harrow; schoolmate of Byron and
Sir Robert Peel; called to the bar 1831; commissioner of lunacy
1832-61. Among his books are "Dramatic Scenes, and Other Poems," "A
Sicilian Story," "Flood of Thessaly," and "English Songs." _Sit Down,
Sad Soul_.
R
RICE, GRANTLAND. Born at Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 1, 1880. Attended
Vanderbilt University. Worked as sporting writer on the Atlanta
_Journal_; came to New York City in 1911. His sporting column, "The
Sportlight," is said to be more widely syndicated and more widely read
than any other writing on topics of sport in the United States. Irvin
S. Cobb says that it often reaches the height of pure literature, and
as a writer of homely, simple American verse Grantland Rice is held by
many to be the logical successor to James Whitcomb Riley. He is author
of "Songs of the Stalwart" and editor of the _American Golfer_. _Brave
Life_; "_Might Have Been_"; _On Being Ready_; _On Down the Road_; _The
Answer_; _The Call of the Unbeaten_; _The Game_; _The Trainers_.
RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB. Born at Greenfield, Ind., 1849; died at Indianapolis,
Ind., July 22, 1916. Public school education; received honorary degree
of M.A. from Yale 1902; Litt.D. from Wabash College 1903 and from the
University of Pennsylvania 1904, and LL.D. from Indiana University
1907. Began contributing poems to Indiana papers 1873; known as the
"Hoosier Poet," and much of his verse in the middle Western and
Hoosier dialect. Among his books are "The Old Swimmin' Hole,"
"Afterwhiles," "Old Fashioned Roses," "Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury,"
"Neighborly Poems," "Green Fields and Running Brooks," "Poems Here at
Home," "Child-Rhymes," "Love Lyrics," "Home Folks," "Farm-Rhymes," "An
Old Sweetheart of Mine," "Out to Old Aunt Mary's," "A Defective Santa
Claus," "Songs o' Cheer," "Boys of the Old Glee Club," "Raggedy Man,"
"Little Orphan Annie," "Songs of Home," "When the Frost Is on the
Punkin," "All the Year Round," "Knee-Deep in June," "A Song of Long
Ago," and "Songs of Summer." His complete works are issued by the
Bobbs-Merrill Company in the "Biographical Edition of James Whitcomh
Riley" 1913. _Just Be Glad_, 14; _My Philosophy_, 57.
RITTENHOUSE, JESSIE BELLE. Born at Mt. Morris, N.Y. Graduate of Genesee
Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N.Y.; teacher of Latin and English in a
private school at Cairo, Ill., and at Ackley Institute for Girls,
Grand Haven, Mich., 1893-4; active newspaper work and reviewer until
1900; contributor to New York _Times_ Review of Books and _The
Bookman_; lecturer on modern poetry in extension courses of Columbia
University. Her books are "The Little Book of Modern Verse," "The
Little Book of Modern American Verse," "Second Book of Modern Verse,"
"The Younger American Poets," and "The Door of Dreams." _My Wage_,
183.
S
SERVICE, ROBERT WILLIAM. Born at Preston, Eng., Jan. 10, 1874. Educated
at Hillhead Public School, Glasgow; served apprenticeship with the
Commercial Bank of Scotland, Glasgow; emigrated to Canada and settled
on Vancouver Island; for a while engaged in farming, and later
traveled up and down the Pacific coast, following many occupations;
finally joined the staff of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Victoria,
B.C., 1905; was later transferred to White Horse, Yukon Territory, and
then to Dawson; he spent eight years in the Yukon, much of it in
travel. In Europe during the Great War; in Paris 1921. Among his books
are "The Spell of the Yukon," "Ballads of a Cheerchako," "Rhymes of a
Rolling Stone," "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man," and "Ballads of a
Bohemian." _The Quitter_, 8.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Born at Stratford on Avon, Apr. 23, 1564; died
there Apr. 23, 1616, and buried in Stratford church. Probably attended
Stratford Grammar School; married Anne Hathaway, who was eight years
his senior, Nov., 1582; a daughter, Susanna, born May 1, 1583; twins,
Hamnet and Judith, born 1585. About 1585 went to London, and became
connected with the theater as actor, reviser of old plays, etc. His
son Hammet died 1596; his father applied for a coat of arms 1596.
Bought New Place at Stratford 1597; coat of arms granted 1599;
shareholder in Globe theater 1599. His father died 1601; his daughter
Susanna married to John Hall, a physician at Stratford, 1607; his
mother died 1608. Retired from theatre and returned to Stratford about
1611. His daughter Judith married to Thomas Quinney, a vintner, 1616;
his wife died 1623; last descendant, Lady Bernard, died 1670. Folio
edition of his plays 1623. Characterized by surpassing ability in both
comedy and tragedy, extraordinary insight into human character, and
supreme mastery of language. Besides his plays, which are too well
known to require listing, he wrote "Sonnets," "Venus and Adonis" and
"The Rape of Lucrece." _A Good Name_, 109; _Cowards_, 194; _Good
Deeds_, 216; _Having Done and Doing_, 52; _Opportunity_, 54; _Order
and the Bees_, 75; _Painting the Lily_, 188; _Polonius's Advice to
Laertes_, 49; _Sadness and Merriment_, 218; _Sleep and the Monarch_,
142; _Stability_, 157; _The Belly and the Members_, 152; _The Life
Without Passion_, 213.
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Born at Field Place, Sussex, Eng., Aug. 4, 1792;
drowned off Vireggio, Italy, July 8, 1822. Educated at Eton 1804-10;
expelled from Oxford for publication of pamphlet "The Necessity of
Atheism" 1811. Married Harriet Westbrook 1811; left her 1814, and went
to Switzerland with Mary Godwin; returned to England 1815; received
£1000 a year from his grandfather's estate 1815. Harriet drowned
herself 1816, and he formally married Mary the next month. They went
to Italy 1818; he was drowned on a voyage to welcome Leigh Hunt to
Italy; his body burned on a funeral pyre in the presence of Byron,
Hunt, and Trelawney. Some of his well-known poems are "Queen Mab,"
"Alastor," "The Revolt of Islam," "Prometheus Unbound," "Adonais," "To
a Skylark," and "Ode to the West Wind"; he also wrote a poetical
tragedy, "The Cenci." _Prometheus Unbound_, 184.
SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND. Born at Windsor, Conn., 1841; died at Cleveland,
Ohio, Feb. 27, 1887. Graduated from Yale 1861; professor of English at
University of California 1874-82. _Faith_, 112; _Life_, 99;
_Opportunity_, 56.
SOUTHWELL, ROBERT. Born about 1561; executed at Tyburn, Feb. 21, 1595.
Educated at Paris; received into the Society of Jesus 1578; returned
to England 1586; became chaplain to the Countess of Arundel 1589;
betrayed to the authorities 1592; imprisoned for three years and
finally executed. _Times Go by Turns_, 122.
STANTON, FRANK LEBBY. Born at Charleston, S.C., Feb. 22, 1857. Common
school education; served apprenticeship as printer; identified with
the Atlanta press for years, especially with the Atlanta
_Constitution_ in which his poems have been a feature, and have won
for him a unique place among modern verse writers. Some of his books
are "Songs of the Soil," "Comes One With a Song," "Songs from Dixie
Land," "Up from Georgia," and "Little Folks Down South." _A Hopeful
Brother_, 67; _A Little Thankful Song_, 181; _A Poor Unfortunate_,
137; _A Pretty Good World_, 189; _A Song of To-Morrow_, 187; _Here's
Hopin'_, 164; _Hoe Your Row_, 203; _Just Whistle_, 38; _Keep A-Goin'!_
229; _This World_, 133.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Born at Edinburgh, Nov. 13, 1850; died at Apia,
Samoa, Dec. 4, 1894. Early education irregular because of poor
health; went to Italy with his parents 1863; at Edinburgh University
1867-73, at first preparing for engineering but later taking up law;
admitted to the bar 1875 but never practised. Various trips to the
Continent between 1873-79; visited America 1879-80; resided in
Switzerland, France, and England 1882-7; came to America again 1887-8;
voyages in Pacific 1888-91; at Vailima, Samoa, 1891-94. A conspicuous
example of a man always in poor health yet courageous and optimistic
throughout his life. Among his books are "A Lodging for the Night,"
"Travels with a Donkey," "Virginibus Puerisque," "New Arabian Nights,"
"Treasure Island," "A Child's Garden of Verse," "The Strange Case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," "Kidnapped," "The Master of Ballantrae,"
"Father Damien," "Ebb Tide," and "Weir of Hermiston." _The Celestial
Surgeon_.
T
TEICHNER, MIRIAM. Born at Detroit, Mich., 1888. Educated in public
schools there; graduated from Central High School; took special
courses in English and economics at the University of Michigan. Member
of staff of Detroit _News_ after leaving school, writing a daily
column of verse and humor; came to New York City as special feature
writer of the New York _Globe_ 1915; in Germany for the Detroit _News_
and Associated Newspapers writing of post-war social and economic
conditions 1921. _Awareness_; _Submission_; _The Struggle_; _Victory_.
TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD. Born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, Eng., Aug. 6, 1809;
died at Aldworth House, near Haslemere, Surrey, Oct. 6, 1892. Student
at Cambridge 1828-31, but did not take a degree; trip to the Pyrenees
with Arthur Hallam 1832; granted a pension of £200 by Peel 1845; after
residing successively at Twickenham and Aldworth, he settled at
Farringford, the Isle of Wight, 1853. Became poet laureate 1850;
raised to the peerage 1884. Some of his well-known poems are "The Lady
of Shalott," "The Palace of Art," "The Lotus Eaters," "A Dream of Fair
Women," "Oenone," "Morte d'Arthur," "Dora," "Ulysses," "Locksley
Hall," "The Princess," "In Memoriam," "Maud," "Ode on the Death of the
Duke of Wellington," "Charge of the Light Brigade," "Idylls of the
King," "Enoch Arden," and the plays "Queen Mary" and "Becket." _Life,
not Death_; _Ring Out, Wild Bells_; _The Greatness of the Soul_;
_Ulysses_; _Will_.
V
VAN DYKE, HENRY. Born at Germantown, Pa., Nov. 10, 1852; graduated at
Polytechnical Institute of Brooklyn 1869; A.B. degree from Princeton
1873; M.A. degree from there 1876; graduated from Princeton
Theological Seminary 1877; studied at University of Berlin 1877-9; has
received honorary degrees from Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Union,
Wesleyan, Pennsylvania, and Oxford. Pastor of United Congregational
Church, Newport, R.I., 1879-82, and of the Brick Presbyterian Church,
New York, 1883-1900; professor of English literature at Princeton from
1900; U.S. minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg 1913-17. Author
of "The Poetry of Tennyson," "Sermons to Young Men," "Little Rivers,"
"The Other Wise Man," "The First Christmas Tree," "The Builders, and
Other Poems," "The Lost Word," "Fisherman's Luck," "The Toiling of
Felix, and Other Poems," "The Blue Flower," "Music, and Other Poems,"
"Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land," "The Mansion," and "The Unknown
Quantity." _Four Things, 3; Work_, 65.
W
WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Born at Haverhill, Mass., Dec. 17, 1807; died
at Hampton Falls, N.H., Sept. 7, 1892. Of Quaker ancestory; father a
poor farmer; as a boy he injured his health by hard work on the farm.
Taught school; attended Haverhill Academy for two terms 1827-8; edited
Haverhill _Gazette_ 1830; returned to the farm in broken health 1832.
Member of Massachusetts Legislature 1835-6. An ardent opponent of
slavery; edited the Pennsylvania _Freeman_ 1838-40; several times
attacked by mobs because of his views on slavery. Leading writer for
the Washington _National Era _1847-57; contributed to the _Atlantic
Monthly_ 1857. Some of his well-known poems are "Maud Muller," "The
Barefoot Boy," "Barbara Freitchie," "Snow-Bound," and "The Eternal
Goodness." _My Triumph_, 90.
WIDDEMER, MARGARET. Born at Doylestown, Pa.; educated at home; graduated
at the Drexel Institute Library School 1909. Began writing in
childhood; her first published poem "The Factories" was widely quoted;
married Robert Haven Schauffler 1919. Among her books are "The
Rose-Garden Husband," "Winona of the Camp Fire," "Factories, with
Other Lyrics," "Why Not?" "The Wishing-Ring Man," "The Old Road to
Paradise," and "The Board Walk." _To Youth After Pain_, 103.
WILCOX, ELLA WHEELER. Born at Johnston Centre, Wis., 1855; died at her
home in Connecticut, Oct. 31, 1919. Educated "Poems of Pleasure,"
"Kingdom of Love," "Poems of Passion," "Poems of Progress," "Poems of
Sentiment," "New Thought Common Sense," "Picked Poems," "Gems from
Wilcox," "Faith," "Love," "Hope," "Cheer," and "The World and I."
_Life_, 139; _Smiles_, 226; _Solitude_, 16; _The Disappointed_, 126;
_Will_, 107; _Wishing_, 86; _Worth While_, 28.
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, Eng., Apr. 7, 1770;
died at Rydal Mount, Apr. 23, 1850. Educated at Hawkshead grammar
school and Cambridge University, where he graduated 1791. Traveled on
Continent 1790; in France 1791-2, where he sympathized with the French
republicans. Received £900 legacy 1795, and settled with his sister
Dorothy at Racedown, Dorsetshire; to be near Coleridge he removed to
Alfoxden 1797; went to Continent 1798; returned to England 1799, and
settled at Grasmere in the lake district; married Mary Hutchison 1802;
settled at Allan Bank 1808; removed to Grasmere 1811. Appointed
distributer of stamps 1813, and settled at Rydal Mount; traveled in
Scotland 1814 and 1832; on the Continent 1820 and 1837. Given a
pension of £300 by Peel 1842; became poet laureate 1843. Some of his
well-known poems are "The Excursion," "Tintern Abbey," "Yarrow
Revisited," "The Prelude," "Intimations of Immortality," and "We Are
Seven." _Ode to Duty_, 190; _The Daffodils_, 180; _The Rainbow_, 117.
WOTTON, SIR HENRY. Born at Bocton Malherbe, Kent, Eng., 1568; died at
Eton, 1639. Educated at Winchester and Oxford; on the Continent
1588-95; became the secretary of the Earl of Essex 1595; English
ambassador to Venice, Germany, etc.; became provost of Eton College
1624. _Character of a Happy Life_, 214.