Arlo Bates

Arlo Bates (December 16, 1850 – August 25, 1918) was an American poet, author, educator and newspaperman.

Life
Arlo Bates was born at East Machias, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876. In 1880 Bates became the editor of the Boston Sunday Courier (1880–1893) and afterward became professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Recognition
He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1900.

Novels

 * The Pagans (1884)
 * The Wheel of Fire (1885)
 * The Philistines (1888)
 * The Puritans (1899)
 * Love in a Cloud (1900)

Poetry

 * Berries of the Brier (1886)
 * Sonnets in Shadow, (1887)
 * a Poet and his Self (1891)
 * Told in the Gate (1892)
 * The Torchbearers (1894)
 * Under the Beech Tree (1899)

Collected Criticisms

 * Talks on Writing English (1897)
 * Talks on the Study of Literature (1898)
 * The Diary of a Saint (1902)
 * Talks on Teaching Literature (1906)
 * "Introduction" to E.P. Whipple's Charles Dickens.

Collected Stories
See also
 * The Intoxicated Ghost (1908)
 * List of U.S. poets