MILLER, JOAQUIN. Born in Indiana, Nov. 11, 1841; died Feb. 17, 1913. He went to Oregon 1854; was afterwards a miner in California; studied law; was a judge in Grant County, Oregon, 1866-70. For a while he was a journalist in Washington, D.C.; returned to California 1887. He is the author of various books of verse, and is called "The Poet of the Sierras." Columbus; To Those Who Fail.
MILTON, JOHN. Born at London, Dec. 9, 1608; died there Nov. 8, 1674. Attended St. Paul's School; at Cambridge 1625-32. At Horton, writing and studying, 1632-38. In 1638 went to Italy; met Galileo in Florence. During the great Civil War wrote pamphlets against the Royalists; was made Latin Secretary to the new Commonwealth 1649; became totally blind 1652. Until his third marriage in 1663, his domestic life had been rendered unhappy by the undutifulness of his three daughters. Among his works are "L'Allegro," "Il Penseroso," "Comus," "Lycidas," "Paradise Lost," "Paradise Regained," and "Samson Agonistes." The Inner Light.
MORGAN, ANGELA. Born at Washington, D.C. Educated under private tutors and at public schools; took special work at Columbia University. Began early as a newspaper writer, first with the Chicago American; then with the Chicago Journal, and New York and Boston papers. She is a member of the Poetry Society of America, The MacDowell Club, Three Arts, and the League of American Pen Women. She is one of the most eloquent readers before the public to-day; was a delegate to the Congress of Women at The Hague 1915, at which she read her poem "Battle Cry of the Mothers." Her four books of poems are "The Hour Has Struck," "Utterance, and Other Poems," "Forward, March!" and "Hail, Man!" and a fifth is soon to be published. Her book of fiction "The Imprisoned Splendor" contains well-known stories ("What Shall We Do with Mother?" "The Craving," "Such Is the Love of Woman," and "The Making of a Man"), some of which appeared previously in magazines. A novel is shortly to be published. A Song of Life; A Song of Thanksgiving; Grief; Know Thyself; Stand Forth!; When Nature Wants a Man; Work.
MORRIS, JOSEPH. Born in Ohio 1889. College and university education; professor of English and lecturer on literary subjects; newspaper and magazine contributor; connected with publishing houses since 1917 in various editorial capacities. A Lesson from History; Borrowed Feathers; Can You Sing a Song?; If You Can't Go Over or Under, Go Round; Philosophy for Croakers; Swellitis; The Glad Song; The Unmusical Soloist; Two Raindrops.
N
NEIHARDT, JOHN GNEISENAU. Born near Sharpsburg, Ill., Jan. 8, 1881.
Completed the scientific course at the Nebraska Normal College 1897;
received the degree of Litt.D. from the University of Nebraska 1917.
Declared Poet Laureate of Nebraska by a joint resolution of the
Legislature, Apr. 1921, in recognition of the significance of the
American epic cycle upon which he has been working for eight years.
Winner of the prize of five hundred dollars offered by the Poetry
Society of America for the best volume of poetry ("The Song of Three
Friends") published by an American in 1919. Has been literary critic
of the Minneapolis Journal since 1912. Among his books are "The
Divine Enchantment," "The Lonesome Trail," "A Bundle of Myrrh,"
"Man-Song," "The River and I," "The Dawn-Builder," "The Stranger at
the Gate," "Death of Agrippina," "Life's Lure," "The Song of Hugh
Glass," "The Quest," "The Song of Three Friends," "The Splendid
Wayfaring," and "Two Mothers." Battle Cry, 148; Envoi, 196; Let
Me Live Out My Years, 127; Prayer for Pain, 208.
NETTE, JEAN. Challenge, 119.
NEWBOLT, SIR HENRY. Born at Bilston, Eng., June 6, 1862. Educated at
Oxford; practised law until 1899; editor of Monthly Review 1900-04;
Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature; created a Knight
1915. Among his books are "Taken from the Enemy," "Mordred," "Admirals
All," "The Island Race," "The Old Country," "The Book of Cupid,"
"Poems Old and New," and "The New June." Play the Game, 162.
NOYES, ALFRED. Born in Staffordshire, Eng., Sept. 16, 1880. Educated at Oxford; received honorary degree of Litt.D. from Yale 1913; gave the Lowell Lectures in America on "The Sea in English Poetry" 1913; elected to Professorship of Modern Poetry at Princeton 1914; temporarily attached to the foreign office 1916. Among his books are "Collected Poems" (three volumes), "The Elfin Artist," "The New Morning," "The Lord of Misrule," "A Belgian Christmas Eve," "The Wine-Press," "Tales of the Mermaid Tavern," "Sherwood," "The Enchanted Island," "Drake," "Beyond the Desert," "Walking Shadows," "Open Boats," "The Golden Hynde." "The Flower of Old Japan," and "A Salute from the Fleet." The New Duckling, 34.