Arlo Bates (1850-1918). from Little Pilgrimages, 1903. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Arlo Bates (December 16, 1850 - August 25, 1918) was an American poet, prose author, newspaperman, and academic.[1]
Life[]
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.[2]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Berries of the Brier. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886.
- A Lad's Love. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887.
- Sonnets in Shadow. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887.
- The Poet and his Self. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891.
- Told in the Gate. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892.
- The Torch-bearers. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894.
- Under the Beech Tree. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899.
Plays[]
- A Gentle Jury: A farce in one act. Boston: W.H. Baker, 1897.
- Her Deaf Ear: A one-act comedy. Boston: W.H. Baker, 1907.
- A Mothers' Meeting: An entertainment in one scene for female characters. Boston: W.H. Baker, 1909.
- A Business Meeting: A parlor play in one act. Boston: W.H. Baker, 1905.
- An Interrupted Propsal. Boston: W.H. Baker, 1907.
Novels[]
- Patty's Perverserities. Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1881.
- Mr. Jacobs: A tale of the drummer, the reporter, and the pretidigateur. Boston: W.B. Clarke & Carruth, 1883.
- The Pagans. New York: Holt, 1884.
- A Wheel of Fire. New York: Scribners, 1885.
- The Philistines. Boston: Ticknor, 1889.
- Albrecht. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890.
- The Puritans. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1898.
- Love in a Cloud: A comedy in filigree. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1900.
- The Diary of a Saint. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902.
- The Witch of Harpswell: A tale of the old days when Maine was a colony of Massachusetts. 1922.
Short fiction[]
- A Book o'Nine Tales. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891.
- The Intoxicated Ghost and other stories. (1908)
- In the Bundle of Time. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893.
Non-fiction[]
- F. Seymour Hayden and Engraving (pamphlet). Boston: Press of A. Mudge & Son, 1882.
- Talks on Writing English. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1896.
- Talks on the Study of Literature. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1897.
- Talks on Writing English, Second Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901.
- Talks on Teaching Literature. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906.
- "Introduction" to Edwin Percy Whipple, Charles Dickens: The man and his work. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912.[3]
Children's books[]
- Prince Vance: The story of a prince with a court in his box (with Eleanor Putnam). Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888
- The Boston Mother Goose (published in aid of the Boston Allied Bazaar). Boston: George H. Ellis, 1916.
Edited[]
- Eleanor Putnam, Old Salem. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1893.
- Poems by John Keats. Boston & London: Ginn, 1896.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Arlo Bates Dies- Author of Many Books and Teacher at Institute of Technology, New York, NY: New York Times, August 26, 1918, p. 11.
- ↑ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
- ↑ Charles Dickens: The man and his work (1912), Internet Archive. Web, July 1, 2013.
- ↑ Search results = au:Arlo Bates, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, July 1, 2013.
External links[]
- Poems
- Books
- Works by Arlo Bates at Project Gutenberg
- Arlo Bates at Amazon.com
- Works by or about Arlo Bates in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- About
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.. Original article is at:
- Etc.
- Arlo Bates papers at Bowdoin College
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