Cale Young Rice

Cale Young Rice (1872-1943). Courtesy ZTopics.

Cale Young Rice (December 7, 1872 - January 24, 1943) was an American poet and playwright.

Life

Rice was born in Dixon, Kentucky to Laban Marchbanks Rice, a Confederate veteran and tobacco merchant, and his wife Martha (Lacy). He was a younger brother of Laban Lacy Rice, a noted educator.

Cale Rice grew up in Evansville, Indiana, and Louisville, Kentucky. He was educated at Cumberland University and at Harvard (A.B., 1895; A.M., 1896).

He was married to popular author Alice Hegan Rice; they worked together on several books. The marriage was childless. Rice committed suicide by gunshot during the night of January 23-24, 1943, a year after her death, at his home in Louisville due to his sorrow at losing her.

Recognition

Cale Rice's poems were collected and published in a single volume by his brother, Laban Lacy Rice.

His birthplace in Dixon is designated by Kentucky State Historical Marker 1508, which reads:

"Birthplace of Rice brothers, Cale Young, 1872-1943, noted poet and author; Laban Lacy, 1870-1973, well-known educator and author. Lacy published The Best Poetic Works of Cale Young Rice after Cale's death. Included in famous collection is poem, "The Mystic." Cale married Alice Hegan, also a distinguished Kentucky writer. Home overlooks Memorial Garden."

Publications

Poetry

• From Dusk to Dusk. Nashville, TN: Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing House, 1898. (1898)
• With Omar. Lebanon, TN: privately printed, 1900. 
• Song-Surf. Boston: R.G. Badger, 1901.
• Nirvana Days. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1909.
• Many Gods. New York: Doubleday, 1910. 
• Far Quests. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1912.
• At the World's Heart. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1914.
• Earth and New Earth. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Page, 1916.
• Trails Sunward. New York: Century, 1917.
• Songs to A.H.R. New York: Century, 1918.
• Wraiths and Realities. New York: Century, 1918.
• Shadowy Thresholds. New York: Century, 1919.
• Sea Poems. New York: Century, 1921.
• Mihrima, and other poems. New York: Century, 1922.
• A Pilgrim's Scrip: Poems for world-wanderers. New York: Century, 1924.
• Bitter Brew. New York: Century, 1925.
• A Sea-Lover's Scrip. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1925.
• Stygian Freight. New York & London: Century, 1927.
• Seed of the Moon. New York & London: Century, 1929.
• High Perils. New York & London: Putnam, 1933.
• Bridging the Years. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1939.
• The Best Poetic Work of Cale Young Rice (edited by Laban Lacy Rice). Lebanon, TN: Cumberland University Press, 1943.

Plays

• Charles di Tocca: A tragedy. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1903.
• David: A tragedy. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1904.
• A Night in Avignon: A drama. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1907. 
• Yolanda of Cypress. New York: McClure, 1908.
• The Immortal Lure. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1911.
• Porzia. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1913. 
• The Swamp Bird: A drama. New York & London: Century, 1931.
• Love and Lord Byron: A drama. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1936.

Novels

• Youth's Way. New York & London: Century, 1923.
• Early Reaping. New York & London: Century, 1929.

Non-fiction

• Bridging the Years (autobiography). New York & London: D. Appleton-Century, 1939.
• A New Approach to Philosophy. Lebanon, TN: Cumberland University Press, 1943.

Collected editions

• Plays and Lyrics. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1906; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906.
• Collected Plays and Poems. (2 volumes), Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1915. Volume I, Volume II
• Selected Plays and Poems. New York: Century, 1926.

The Mystic, a Mystic Poem by Cale Young Rice, Audiobook

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• List of U.S. poets
• List of English-language playwrights

External links

Poems

• "The Malay to His Master"
• "Processional"
• Cale Young Rice in The Little Book of Modern Verse: "When the Wind is Low," "Kinchinjunga," "The Mystic"
• Cale Young Rice at the Academy of American Poets (profile & 3 poem)
• Cale Young Rice at PoemHunter (8 poems)
• Works of Cale Young Rice at Read Book Online.
• Cale Young Rice at AllPoetry (246 poems)

Books

• Works by Cale Young Rice at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Cale Young Rice at Internet Archive.
• Cale Young Rice at the Online Books Page
• Cale Young Rice at Amazon.com

Audio / video

• Cale Young Rice at YouTube

About

• Cale Young Rice at Find a Grave
• review of Plays and Lyrics: The Collected poems of Cale Young Rice in the New York Times
• review of Selected Plays and Poems in the Virginia Quarterly Review
• Cale Young Rice at IMDb.
• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.. Original article is at: