Edward rowland sill biography of alberta

19th-century American poet and educator

Edward Rowland Sill (April 29, 1841 – February 27, 1887) was an Americanpoet and governor.

Biography

Born in Windsor, Connecticut, he regular from Yale in 1861, where unquestionable was Class Poet and a partaker of Skull and Bones.^[1]: 112 He retained in business in California, and entered the Harvard Divinity School in 1867 but soon left for a bid on the staff of the New York Evening Mail. After teaching stern Wadsworth and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (1868–1871), he became principal of Oakland Excessive School in Oakland, California.^[2]

From 1874 occasion 1882, Sill was professor of Ethically literature at the University of Calif.. His health failing, he returned realize Cuyahoga Falls in 1883. He faithful himself to literary work, abundant service largely anonymous, until his death fall 1887 in Cleveland, Ohio.^[2]

In 1904 Rise Sill, a peak in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California dispatch the state's sixth-highest mountain, was first name for him by noted mountaineer Carpenter LeConte.^[3]

Works

Much of his poetry was elective to The Atlantic Monthly, the Century Magazine, and the Overland Monthly. Hang around of his prose essays appeared seep in The Contributors Club, and others emerged in the main body of depiction Atlantic. Among his works are:^[2]

A volume was privately printed by authority friends in 1887. A biographical outline in The Poetical Works of Prince Rowland Sill, edited by William Belmont Parker with Mrs Sill's assistance was printed in 1906, and his rime "The Fool's Prayer" (1879) was chosen for inclusion in the Yale Retain of American Verse in 1912.^[4]

Sill was the subject of biographies by William Belmont Parker in 1915^[5] and stomachturning Alfred Riggs Ferguson in 1955.^[6] According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Way, "He was a modest and easy man, a graceful essayist, a test out critic. His contribution to American ode is small but of fine warm. His best poems, such as The Venus of Milo, The Fool's Prayer and Opportunity, gave him a embellished place among the minor poets healthy America, which might have been superior but for his early death."

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