Arlo Bates

Arlo Bates (December 16, 1850 โ€“ August 25, 1918) was an American author, educator and newspaperman.

Arlo Bates
Born(1850-12-16)December 16, 1850
DiedAugust 25, 1918(1918-08-25) (aged 67)[1]
Alma materBowdoin College
SpouseHarriet Leonora Vose (d. 1886)[1]
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Biography

Arlo 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 (1880โ€“1893) and afterward became professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1900.[2]

List of works

Novels:

Collected Poems:

  • Berries of the Brier (1886)
  • Sonnets in Shadow, (1887)
  • a Poet and his Self (1891)
  • Told in the Gate (1892)
  • The Torchbearers (1894)
  • Under the Beech Tree (1899)

Collected Criticisms:

  • Talks on Writing English (1897)
  • Talks on the Study of Literature (1898)
  • The Diary of a Saint (1902)
  • Talks on Teaching Literature (1906)

Collected Stories:

  • The Intoxicated Ghost (1908)

In 1912 he wrote an introduction to E. P. Whipple's Charles Dickens.

Notes

  1. "Arlo Bates Dies- Author of Many Books and Teacher at Institute of Technology", The New York Times, New York, NY, p. 11, August 26, 1918
  2. "Book of Members, 1780โ€“2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 20, 2011.

References

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