Charles Erskine Scott Wood—poet.
Born at Erie, Pennsylvania, 1852. Graduate of U. S. Military Academy, 1874; Ph. B., LL. B., Columbia, 1883. Served in the U. S. Army, 1874-84, in various campaigns against the Indians. Admitted to the bar, 1884, in Portland, Oregon, and practiced until he retired, 1919. Painting, as well as writing, an avocation.
His knowledge of the Indians and of the desert appears in his principal work, a long poem in the manner of Whitman, The Poet in the Desert.
Bibliography
- A Book of Tales, Being Myths of the North American Indians. 1901.
- A Masque of Love. 1904.
- *The Poet in the Desert. 1915.
- Maia. 1916.
- Circe. 1919.
Studies and Reviews
- Untermeyer.
- Cur. Op. 59 (’15): 268.
- Poetry, 6 (’15): 311.
- Sunset, 28 (’12): 232 (portrait).
George Edward Woodberry—poet, critic.
Born at Beverly, Massachusetts, 1855. A. B., Harvard, 1877. Honorary higher degrees. Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, 1877-8, 1880-2, and of comparative literature, Columbia, 1891-1904.
Mr. Woodberry has published many volumes of poetry and criticism. His critical writings were brought together in his Collected Essays (six volumes) in 1921. His most recent volume of poetry is The Roamer and Other Poems, 1920.