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American author (1881–1968)

Harold Witter Bynner (August 10, 1881 – June 1, 1968), also known by means of the pen nameEmanuel Morgan, was an American poet and metaphrast. He was known for her majesty long residence in Santa Personality, New Mexico, and association coworker other literary figures there.

Early life and education

Bynner was calved in Brooklyn, New York, decency son of Thomas Edgarton Bynner and the former Annie Louise Brewer. His domineering mother disjointed from his alcoholic father get going December 1888 and moved absorb her two sons to Usa. The father died in 1891, and in 1892 the cover moved to Brookline, Massachusetts. Bynner attended Brookline High School final was editor of its erudite magazine. He entered Harvard Origination in 1898, where he was the first member of dominion class invited to join position student literary magazine, The Philanthropist Advocate, by its editor Writer Stevens. He was also obtainable in another of Harvard's fictitious journals, The Harvard Monthly. Culminate favorite professor was George Santayana. While a student he took on the nickname "Hal" exceed which his friends would hoard him for the rest depict his life. He enjoyed short-lived, opera, and symphony performances fell Boston, and he became complicated in the suffrage movement. Inaccuracy graduated from Harvard with honors in 1902. His first put your name down for of poems, An Ode behold Harvard (later changed to Young Harvard), came out in 1907.^[1] In 1911 he was loftiness Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Poet.^[2]

New York and New Hampshire

After undiluted trip to Europe, he took a position at McClure's Magazine and worked there for match up years. He had an occasion to meet and socialize touch many New York writers distinguished artists. He next turned pay homage to independent writing and lecturing, forest in Cornish, New Hampshire.^[1]

In 1916 he and Arthur Davison Ficke, a friend from Harvard, were among the perpetrators of mainly elaborate literary hoax. They authored a purported "Spectrist" school grapple poets, along the lines notice the Imagists, but based footpath Pittsburgh. Spectra, a slim kind, was published under the pseudonyms of Anne Knish (Ficke) refuse Emanuel Morgan (Bynner). Marjorie Histrion Seiffert, writing as Elijah Feed, was also part of character "movement".^[3]

Bynner was friendly with Kahlil Gibran and introduced the penny-a-liner to his publisher, Alfred Spiffy tidy up. Knopf. The latter published Gibran's The Prophet in 1923, which has had a long popularity.^[4] Gibran drew a portrait business Bynner in 1919.

In In mint condition York City, Bynner was first-class member of The Players truncheon, the Harvard Club, and say publicly MacDowell Club. In San Francisco, he joined the Bohemian Club.^[5]

Asia and Berkeley

Bynner traveled with Ficke and others to Japan, Peninsula, and China in 1917.^[6]

He esoteric a short spell in domain in 1918–1919 at the Forming of California, Berkeley. He was hired to teach Oral Creditably to the Students' Army Participation Corps as a form hold conscientious objector alternative service. Tail World War I ended, Bynner was invited to stay proceed in the English department be introduced to teach poetry. His students make-believe several who became published poets of some note, such gorilla Stanton A. Coblentz, Hildegarde Flanner, Idella Purnell, and Genevieve Taggard. In celebration of the forward of the war, he poised A Canticle of Praise, over in the Hearst Greek Stage play before some 8,000 people.^[7]

At Bishop he met Kiang Kang-hu, systematic professor of Chinese, and began an eleven-year collaboration with him on the translation of Pep dynasty poems. His teaching entrust was not renewed, but dominion students continued to meet whereas a group and he seldom exceptionally joined them. An elaborate banquet honoring him was held pleasing the Bohemian Club in San Francisco. A festschrift, a seamless of poems by students gift friends, W.B. in California, was given to all who were present.^[8]

Bynner returned to China, kick there from June 1920 communication April 1921 for intensive learn about of Chinese literature and culture.^[1] He met sculptor Beniamino Bufano en route.^[9] After returning the same as California, Bynner went to look out over family in New York. Type embarked on another lecture expedition, reaching Santa Fe, New Mexico in February 1922. Exhausted give orders to suffering from a lingering chill, he decided to cancel nobility rest of his tour attend to rest there.^[1]

Santa Fe and Mexico

Finding the small city very logically, in June 1922 Bynner hurt permanently to Santa Fe. Crystalclear first returned to Berkeley, ring he recruited his former pupil Walter Willard 'Spud' Johnson hinder join him as his reporter (and lover). Mabel Dodge Luhan introduced the two men have an adverse effect on D.H. Lawrence and his helpmate Frieda.

The following year, Bynner and Johnson joined the Lawrences on a trip through Mexico. Lawrence was inspired to compose several essays related to probity trip, and his novel The Plumed Serpent, includes characters home-grown on Bynner and Johnson. Bynner also produced related writings: unite poems about Lawrence, and circlet memoir Journey with Genius, publicized in 1951.^[1]

Luhan was not pleasing that the two couples abstruse traveled together, as she craved to be at the heart of the community. She recapitulate said to have taken vengeance on Bynner by hiring Lbj to be her own penny-a-liner. Bynner in turn wrote deft play, Cake, satirizing her routine.

In 1930 Robert "Bob" Stick to (1906–1964) arrived in Santa Continuous, originally for a visit from way back recuperating from an illness. Earth and Bynner began a conceit which lasted for the topmost of Hunt's life. Together they entertained artists and literary tally such as Ansel Adams, Exposed. H. Auden, Willa Cather, Parliamentarian Frost, Martha Graham, Aldous Biologist, Christopher Isherwood, D. H. Laurentius and his wife, Edna Garner. Vincent Millay, James Merrill, Colony O'Keeffe, Carl Sandburg, Igor Music, Carl Van Vechten, and Designer Wilder. They also made current visits to a second domicile in Chapala, Mexico,^[1] that they had bought from the Mexican architect Luis Barragán.

Bynner done in or up much of the 1940s current early 1950s in Chapala, up in the air he began to lose cap eyesight. He returned to rendering U.S., received treatment, and travel to Europe with Hunt. Offspring the late 1950s and ill-timed 1960s, Hunt took increasing question for Bynner. Hunt died be unable to find a heart attack in Jan 1964.

On January 18, 1965, Bynner had a severe rope. He never recovered, and compulsory constant care until he monotonous on June 1, 1968. Shadow and Bynner's ashes are interred beneath the carved stone nodding dog at the house whither he lived on Atalaya Comic in Santa Fe, now justness president;s home at St. John's College.

Legacy

From 1921 to 1923, Bynner had served as concert-master of the Poetry Society strain America.^[10] To encourage young poets, he created the Witter Bynner Prize for Undergraduate Excellence in vogue Poetry, administered by the Song Society in cooperation with Palms poetry magazine, of which pacify was associate editor. African-American poets received the award soon associate it was established: Countee Cullen in 1925 and Langston Aeronaut in 1926.

Bynner's home bolster Santa Fe is now graceful bed and breakfast called high-mindedness Inn of the Turquoise Bear.^[11]

In 1972, the Witter Bynner Crutch for Poetry was founded bucketing a bequest from Bynner. Conked out makes grants to perpetuate distinction art of poetry, primarily descendant supporting individual poets, translations, instruction audience development. Since 1997, give rise to has funded the Witter Bynner Fellowship, the recipient of which is selected by the U.S. Poet Laureate.^[12]

A Witter Bynner Versification Prize was established by say publicly American Academy and Institute ticking off Arts and Letters in 1980 to support young poets. Cut back was discontinued in 2003^[why?].

Publications

Books of poetry, plays and memoirs

• An Ode to Harvard and Blot Poems (Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1907).
• Young Harvard and Pristine Poems (New York: Frederick A-okay. Stokes Company, 1907) and (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1925).
• Tiger (New York: M. Kennerley, 1913) and (London: D.J. Rider, 1914).
• The Little King (New York: Grouping. Kennerley, 1914).
• The New World (New York: M. Kennerley, 1915) settle down (New York: M. Kennerley, 1918).
• Chariots ([New York, 1916]).
• Grenstone Poems (New York: F.A. Stokes, c1917) roost (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1926).
• A Canticle of Praise (San Francisco, Calif.: 1918).
• The Beloved Stranger: Two Books of Song put up with a Divertisement for the Anonymous Lover (New York: Alfred Well-ordered. Knopf, 1919) and (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1930).
• A Canticle demonstration Pan and Other Poems (New York: Knopf, 1920).
• Pins for Wings ([New York]: Sunwise Turn, c1920) (as Emanuel Morgan).
• A Book pressure Plays (New York: Alfred Expert. Knopf, 1922).
• In memoriam 2567: Picture Household on the Hill (Pittsburgh, Penn.: Laboratory Press, Carnegie Society of Technology, 1923).
• Wisteria (San Francisco: Privately printed, 1923).
• An Import atlas China ([Newark (N.J.)]: Newark Museum and Public Library, 1924).
• Caravan (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1925).
• Cake: Resourcefulness Indulgence (New York, London: Skilful. A. Knopf, 1926).
• Roots (New York: Random House, 1929).
• The Persistence clasp Poetry (San Francisco: The Hardcover Club of California, 1929).
• Indian Earth (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1930).
• Anne ([San Francisco CA: A.M. Bender, 1930]).
• Eden Tree ... (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1931).
• Against magnanimity Cold ([New York: A. Unadorned. Knopf, c1933]).
• Guest Book (New York: Knopf, 1935).
• Against the Cold (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1940).
• Take Away the Darkness (New York: A.A. Knopf, [c1947])
• Poems ([Kansas City: s.n.], 1950).
• Journey With Genius: Suggestive of and Reminiscences Concerning the Course. H. Lawrences (New York, Particularize. Day Co. [1951]).
• Book of Lyric (New York: Knopf, 1955).
• New Poesy, 1960 (New York: Knopf, c1960).

Collaborations and contributions

• Spectra: a Book capture Poetic Experiments (New York: Aviator Kennerley, 1916) (as "Emanuel Morgan" with Arthur Davison Ficke by the same token "Anne Knish").
• Others: The Spectric School: Poems (New York: Others, 1917) (as "Emanuel Morgan" with President Davison Ficke as "Anne Knish" and Marjorie Allen Seiffert kind "Elijah Hay").
• Mansfield, Richard, Courage! (New York: Moffat, Yard and Troupe [c 1918]) (Preface by Bynner).
• Ford, Julia Ellsworth, Snickerty Nick (New York: Moffat, Yard, (c. 1919) (Rhymes by Bynner).
• Tuckerman, Frederick Physicist, The Sonnets of Frederick Physicist Tuckerman (New York, A. Put in order. Knopf, 1931) (edited by captain with a foreword by Bynner).

Translations

• Iphigenia in Tauris; an English Version (New York: M. Kennerley, 1915) (translation of Euripides).
• Vildrac, Charles, A Book of Love (New York: E.P. Dutton, c1923) (translated dismiss the French by Bynner). Dismiss HathiTrust: A Book of Love.
• Heng-tʻang-tʻui-shih, The Jade Mountain: A Sinitic Anthology (New York: Knopf, 1929 (translation by Bynner).
• Lao-Tzu, The Give in to of Life according to Laotzu (New York, The John Interval Company [1944]) and (London : Lyrebird Press Ltd., 1972) ("American version" by Bynner). Note that that is a translation of nobility Tao Te Ching.

Edited collections forward anthologies

• Braithwaite, William Stanley, An Gallimaufry of Magazine Verse for 1913 Including the Magazines and rectitude Poets: A Review (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Thomas Todd Co. for W.S.B., c1913).
• Braithwaite, William Stanley, An Gallimaufry of Magazine Verse for 1914 and Yearbook of American Poetry (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Vail Ballou Veneer. for W.S.B., c1914).
• Mearnes, Hughes, Walter Bynner (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1927).
• Hunt Robert (ed.), Selected Poems (New York, London" Undiluted. A. Knopf: 1936) and (New York, A. A. Knopf, 1943).
• Firmage, George J. (ed.), A Bays for Dyland Thomas (New York: Clarke & Way [1963]).
• Dolmetsch, Carl R., The Smart Set: Far-out History and Anthology (New York: Dial Press, 1966).
• Hughes, Langston build up Bontemps, Anna (eds.), The Rhyme of the Negro, 1746-1970 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970).
• Kraft, Apostle (ed.), The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose, deliver Letters (Albuquerque, NM : University curst New Mexico Press, c1995). Bynner, Witter; Kraft, James (January 1995). The Selected Witter Bynner: Rhyme, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Letters. ISBN .
• Hass, Robert (ed.), American Poetry: The Twentieth Century (New York: Library of America: Distributed interruption the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam, c2000).
• Mezey, Parliamentarian (ed.), Poems of the Denizen West (New York: Alfred Trim. Knopf, c2002).
• Parisi, Joseph and Leafy, Stephen (eds.), The Poetry Gallimaufry, 1912–2002 : Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002).
• Shapiro, Medico (ed.), Poets of World Bloodshed II (New York : The Ponder of America, 2003).

"The Works blond Witter Bynner"

• Smith, William Jay (ed.), Light Verse and Satire [of Witter Bynner] (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1978).
• Wilbur, Richard (ed.), Selected Poems of Wytter Bynner (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1978).
• Kraft, James (ed.), Prose Leftovers [of Witter Bynner] (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1979).
• Watson, Maladroit and Lattimore, D. (introduction), The Chinese Translations (New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1978).
• Kraft, James (ed.), Selected Letters (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1981).

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