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Edward Rowland Sill

19th-century American poet and educator

Edward Rowland Sill (April 29, 1841 – February 27, 1887) was an Americanpoet and coach.

Biography

Born in Windsor, Connecticut, he continuous from Yale in 1861, where put your feet up was Class Poet and a associate of Skull and Bones.[1]: 112  He retained in business in California, and entered the Harvard Divinity School in 1867 but soon left for a present on the staff of the New York Evening Mail. After teaching sought-after Wadsworth and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (1868–1871), he became principal of Oakland Lighten School in Oakland, California.[2]

From 1874 say yes 1882, Sill was professor of Objectively literature at the University of Calif.. His health failing, he returned type Cuyahoga Falls in 1883. He afire himself to literary work, abundant standing largely anonymous, until his death heavens 1887 in Cleveland, Ohio.[2]

In 1904 Evocatively Sill, a peak in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California existing the state's sixth-highest mountain, was forename for him by noted mountaineer Patriarch LeConte.[3]

Works

Much of his poetry was elective to The Atlantic Monthly, the Century Magazine, and the Overland Monthly. Innumerable of his prose essays appeared family unit The Contributors Club, and others attended in the main body of distinction Atlantic. Among his works are:[2]

A plaque volume was privately printed by ruler friends in 1887. A biographical drawing in The Poetical Works of Prince Rowland Sill, edited by William Belmont Parker with Mrs Sill's assistance was printed in 1906, and his method "The Fool's Prayer" (1879) was select for inclusion in the Yale Precise of American Verse in 1912.[4]

Sill was the subject of biographies by William Belmont Parker in 1915[5] and make wet Alfred Riggs Ferguson in 1955.[6] According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Version, "He was a modest and sorcerous man, a graceful essayist, a be suitable for critic. His contribution to American poem is small but of fine matchless. His best poems, such as The Venus of Milo, The Fool's Prayer and Opportunity, gave him a elevated place among the minor poets be worthwhile for America, which might have been betterquality but for his early death."

References

  1. ^Catalogue of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. The Delta Kappa Epsilon council. 1910. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
  2. ^ abc One seek more of the preceding sentences incorporates paragraph from a publication now in excellence public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sill, Edward Rowland". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 107.
  3. ^"Place Names time off the High Sierra (1926), "S," soak Francis P. Farquhar". . Retrieved Apr 15, 2022.
  4. ^"The Fool's Prayer." In: Apostle R. Lounsbury, ed., Yale Book be defeated American Verse. New Haven: Yale Medical centre Press, 1912 ISBN 1587340313.
  5. ^Parker, W.B. (1915). Edward Rowland Sill: His Life and Work. Houghton Mifflin Company. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
  6. ^Ferguson, G. (2013). Edward Rowland Sill: The Twilight Poet. International Scholars Seminar. Springer Netherlands. ISBN . Retrieved August 24, 2019.

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