The Second Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets
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The Second Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets
American poetry -- 20th century
Stork, Charles Wharton. [1881-1971] (2)
Born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 12, 1881. Took the degree of A.B.
at Haverford College, 1902; of A.M. at Harvard, 1903, and of Ph.D.
at the University of Pennsylvania, 1905. He then went abroad
to do research work in the universities of England and Germany,
where he spent several years. In 1908 he married Elisabeth,
daughter of Franz von Pausinger, artist, of Salzburg, Austria,
and, returning to America, took up his work at the University of Pennsylvania,
where he remained as instructor and associate professor until 1916,
when he resigned to engage in literary work. Mr. Stork's first book of verse
to become known was "Sea and Bay", 1916. Since then he has done
a great deal of translating from the Swedish and German,
having made admirable renderings of Gustaf Froding, 1916,
as well as many other Swedish poets, whose work he published
in an "Anthology of Swedish Lyrics", 1917. He has since made
a translation of "Selected Poems of Verner Von Heidenstam",
the Nobel Prize winner of 1916. In addition to his work in Swedish poetry,
he has made an excellent rendering of the lyrics of Hofmansthal,
the Austrian poet. Mr. Stork is the editor and owner of `Contemporary Verse',
devoted to the poetry of the present group in America.
A second collection of his own verse will soon appear.
Teasdale, Sara. [1884-1933] (4)
Born in St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 10, 1884. Educated at private schools.
Married Ernst B. Filsinger, 1915. She is the author of "Sonnets to Duse",
1907; "Helen of Troy and Other Poems", 1911; "Rivers to the Sea", 1915;
"Love Songs", 1917, which was awarded the Columbia University Prize of $500
for the best book of poems of the current year. Miss Teasdale was also
the editor of "The Answering Voice; A Hundred Love Lyrics by Women", 1917.
She herself wrote some of the finest love songs of our period
and was one of the purest and most spontaneous lyric poets of her generation.
[Sara Teasdale won the first Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1918
for "Love Songs". (Same as the Columbia University Prize listed above.)
-- A. L., 1998.]
Tietjens, Eunice. [1884-1944] (1)
Born in Chicago, Ill., July 29, 1884. Educated in Europe,
chiefly at Geneva, Dresden, and Paris. Married Paul Tietjens, musician,
in 1904. Was divorced in 1914, and in 1920 married Cloyd Head, of Chicago.
Was for several years associate editor of `Poetry'. Mrs. Tietjens
has traveled extensively, especially in the interior of China. She also spent
sixteen months in France as a war correspondent for the Chicago Daily News.
Mrs. Tietjens is the author of "Profiles from China", 1917,
and "Body and Raiment", 1919.
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