Trumbull Stickney
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Joseph Trumbull Stickney (June 20, 1874 – October 11, 1904) was an American classical scholar and poet. His style has been characterised[by whom?] as fin de siècle and he is known[by whom?] for his sonnets in particular.
He was born in Geneva and spent much of his life in Europe. He attended Harvard University from 1891 to 1895. He then studied for a doctorate at the Sorbonne. He wrote there two dissertations, one on Ermolao Barbaro, and the other on Les Sentences dans la Poésie Grècque. His was the first non-francophone doctorat dès lettres.
He then took a teaching position at Harvard, but died in Boston of a brain tumour about a year later.
Stickney's poem "Song" is plagiarized in the 2006 film The Good Shepherd by a Yale professor of English in a failed attempt to seduce the protagonist, portrayed by Matt Damon.
[edit] Works
- Dramatic Verses (1902)
- The poems of Trumbull Stickney (1905) edited by George Cabot Lodge; William Vaughn Moody, and John Ellerton Lodge
- Trumbull Stickney (1973) edited by Amberys R. Whittle
[edit] References
- Homage to Trumbull Stickney: Poems (1968) edited by James Reeves and Seán Haldane
- The fright of time: Joseph Trumbull Stickney 1874-1904 (1970) by Seán Haldane
- The Country I Remember (1940) by Edmund Wilson in The New Republic
