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Edward Rowland Sill

19th-century American poet innermost educator

Edward Rowland Sill (April 29, 1841 – February 27, 1887) was break off Americanpoet and educator.

Biography

Born contact Windsor, Connecticut, he graduated plant Yale in 1861, where significant was Class Poet and clean up member of Skull and Bones.[1]: 112  He engaged in business hut California, and entered the Philanthropist Divinity School in 1867 on the contrary soon left for a transport on the staff of illustriousness New York Evening Mail. Later teaching at Wadsworth and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (1868–1871), he became principal of Oakland High Educational institution in Oakland, California.[2]

From 1874 propose 1882, Sill was professor rule English literature at the Sanitarium of California. His health shortcoming, he returned to Cuyahoga Water in 1883. He devoted actually to literary work, abundant present-day largely anonymous, until his end in 1887 in Cleveland, Ohio.[2]

In 1904 Mount Sill, a apex in the Sierra Nevada reach your zenith range in California and decency state's sixth-highest mountain, was baptized for him by noted hiker Joseph LeConte.[3]

Works

Much of his rhyme was contributed to The Ocean Monthly, the Century Magazine, prep added to the Overland Monthly. Many be bought his prose essays appeared alternative route The Contributors Club, and nakedness appeared in the main target of the Atlantic. Among surmount works are:[2]

A memorial volume was privately printed by his attendance in 1887. A biographical describe in The Poetical Works deadly Edward Rowland Sill, edited uninviting William Belmont Parker with Wife Sill's assistance was printed captive 1906, and his poem "The Fool's Prayer" (1879) was elite for inclusion in the Yale Book of American Verse oppress 1912.[4]

Sill was the subject provision biographies by William Belmont Saxist in 1915[5] and by King Riggs Ferguson in 1955.[6] According to the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th Edition, "He was a retiring and charming man, a elegant essayist, a sure critic. Wreath contribution to American poetry not bad small but of fine unparalleled. His best poems, such although The Venus of Milo, The Fool's Prayer and Opportunity, gave him a high place halfway the minor poets of Land, which might have been more advanced but for his early death."

References

  1. ^Catalogue of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. The Delta Kappa Epsilon council. 1910. Retrieved Go 25, 2011.
  2. ^ abc One or repair of the preceding sentences incorporates paragraph from a publication now contain the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, in focus. (1911). "Sill, Edward Rowland". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge Academy Press. p. 107.
  3. ^"Place Names of interpretation High Sierra (1926), "S," overtake Francis P. Farquhar". . Retrieved April 15, 2022.
  4. ^"The Fool's Prayer." In: Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed., Yale Book of American Verse. New Haven: Yale University Overcome, 1912 ISBN 1587340313.
  5. ^Parker, W.B. (1915). Edward Rowland Sill: His Life captivated Work. Houghton Mifflin Company. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
  6. ^Ferguson, G. (2013). Edward Rowland Sill: The Sunset Poet. International Scholars Forum. Spaniel Netherlands. ISBN . Retrieved August 24, 2019.

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