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'''Joseph Trumbull Stickney''' (June 20, 1874 – October 11, 1904) was an American [[classics|classical scholar]] and [[poet]].
'''Joseph Trumbull Stickney''' (June 20, 1874 – October 11, 1904) was an American [[classics|classical scholar]] and [[poet]].


==Biography==
He was born in [[Geneva]]<ref>His father was Austin Stickney, A.B. Harvard 1852, professor of Latin at Trinity College, Hartford, and Harriet Champion Trumbull Stickney, of a Connecticut family descended from Gov. [[Jonathan Trumbull]] (obituary,''Harvard Graduates Magazine'', '''13''', 1904:242-44)</ref> and spent much of his early life in [[Europe]]. He attended [[Harvard University]] from 1891, when he became editor of the ''Harvard Monthly'' and a member of [[Signet society]], to 1895, when he graduated magna cum laude. He then studied for seven years in Paris, taking a doctorate at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]]. He wrote there two dissertations, a Latin one on the Venetian humanist [[Ermolao Barbaro]], and the other on ''Les Sentences dans la Poésie Grecque''. His was the first American ''docteur ès lettres''.
He was born in [[Geneva]]<ref>His father was Austin Stickney, A.B. Harvard 1852, professor of Latin at Trinity College, Hartford, and Harriet Champion Trumbull Stickney, of a Connecticut family descended from Gov. [[Jonathan Trumbull]] (obituary,''Harvard Graduates Magazine'', '''13''', 1904:242-44)</ref> and spent much of his early life in [[Europe]]. He attended [[Harvard University]] from 1891, when he became editor of the ''Harvard Monthly'' and a member of [[Signet Society]], to 1895, when he graduated magna cum laude. He then studied for seven years in Paris, taking a doctorate at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]]. He wrote there two dissertations, a Latin one on the Venetian humanist [[Ermolao Barbaro]], and the other on ''Les Sentences dans la Poésie Grecque d'Homère à Euripide''. The latter is openly indebted to ''[[The Birth of Tragedy]]'' and to Stickney's study of the ''[[Bhagavad Gita]]'' under the tutelage of [[Sylvain Lévi]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/lessentencesdan00sticgoog/lessentencesdan00sticgoog_djvu.txt|title=Les sentences dans la poésie grecque d'Homère à Euripide|year=1903|publisher=Société nouvelle de librairie et d'édition}}</ref> Stickney's was the first American [[docteur ès lettres]].


He then published a first book of verse ''Dramatic Verses'' (1902) and took a position as Instructor in Classics at Harvard (1903), but died in [[Boston]] of a [[brain tumour]] a year later.<ref>Obituary.</ref> Stickney belongs to the number of Harvard poets (or the Harvard Pessimists) who died young, such as [[Thomas Parker Sanborn]], [[George Cabot Lodge]], [[Philip Henry Savage]] and [[Hugh McCulloch (poet)|Hugh McCulloch]].
He then published a first book of verse ''Dramatic Verses'' (1902) and took a position as Instructor in Classics at Harvard (1903), but died in [[Boston]] of a [[brain tumour]] a year later.<ref>Obituary.</ref> Stickney belongs to the number of Harvard poets (or the Harvard Pessimists) who died young, such as [[Thomas Parker Sanborn]], [[George Cabot Lodge]], [[Philip Henry Savage]] and [[Hugh McCulloch (poet)|Hugh McCulloch]].


Stickney's poem "Song" (which describes the earth ebullient in late spring, and the cuckoo singing "''not yet''") is plagiarized in the [[Robert De Niro]] 2006 film ''[[The Good Shepherd (film)|The Good Shepherd]]'' by a [[Yale University|Yale]] professor of English, acted by [[Michael Gambon]] as Dr. Fredericks, in a failed attempt to seduce the protagonist, portrayed by [[Matt Damon]].
Stickney's poem "Song" (which describes the earth ebullient in late spring, and the cuckoo singing "''not yet''") is plagiarized in the [[Robert De Niro]] 2006 film ''[[The Good Shepherd (film)|The Good Shepherd]]'' by a [[Yale University|Yale]] professor of English, acted by [[Michael Gambon]] as Dr. Fredericks, in a failed attempt to seduce the protagonist, portrayed by [[Matt Damon]]. Two of the poems of Stickney - "Mnemosyne", and "Eride, V" are included in the volume of "The Best Poems of the English Language" complied by Professor Harold Bloom and published in 2004, 100 years after the death of the poet.<ref>Best Poems of the English Language, Harper Collins, 2004, New York, New York</ref>


==Works==
==Works==


*''Dramatic Verses'' (1902)
*''Dramatic Verses'' (1902)
*''Les Sentences dans la Poésie Grècque d'Homère à Euripide'' (1903)
*''The poems of Trumbull Stickney'' (1905) edited by [[George Cabot Lodge]]; [[William Vaughn Moody]], and [[John Ellerton Lodge]]
*''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]]
*''Trumbull Stickney'' (1973) edited by [[Amberys R. Whittle]]
*Poem 'Mnemosyne'


==References==
==References==
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* [https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/trumbull-stickney-2/ "Trumbull Stickney,"] poem by [[Jared Carter]]
* [https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/trumbull-stickney-2/ "Trumbull Stickney,"] poem by [[Jared Carter (poet)|Jared Carter]]
* [https://archive.org/details/lessentencesdan00sticgoog Les sentences dans la poésie grecque d'Homère à Euripide] at Archive.org
* [http://www.eng-poetry.ru/english/Poet.php?PoetId=414 Poems by Trumbull Stickney] at English Poetry


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Revision as of 01:38, 12 December 2023

Joseph Trumbull Stickney (June 20, 1874 – October 11, 1904) was an American classical scholar and poet.

Biography

He was born in Geneva[1] and spent much of his early life in Europe. He attended Harvard University from 1891, when he became editor of the Harvard Monthly and a member of Signet Society, to 1895, when he graduated magna cum laude. He then studied for seven years in Paris, taking a doctorate at the Sorbonne. He wrote there two dissertations, a Latin one on the Venetian humanist Ermolao Barbaro, and the other on Les Sentences dans la Poésie Grecque d'Homère à Euripide. The latter is openly indebted to The Birth of Tragedy and to Stickney's study of the Bhagavad Gita under the tutelage of Sylvain Lévi.[2] Stickney's was the first American docteur ès lettres.

He then published a first book of verse Dramatic Verses (1902) and took a position as Instructor in Classics at Harvard (1903), but died in Boston of a brain tumour a year later.[3] Stickney belongs to the number of Harvard poets (or the Harvard Pessimists) who died young, such as Thomas Parker Sanborn, George Cabot Lodge, Philip Henry Savage and Hugh McCulloch.

Stickney's poem "Song" (which describes the earth ebullient in late spring, and the cuckoo singing "not yet") is plagiarized in the Robert De Niro 2006 film The Good Shepherd by a Yale professor of English, acted by Michael Gambon as Dr. Fredericks, in a failed attempt to seduce the protagonist, portrayed by Matt Damon. Two of the poems of Stickney - "Mnemosyne", and "Eride, V" are included in the volume of "The Best Poems of the English Language" complied by Professor Harold Bloom and published in 2004, 100 years after the death of the poet.[4]

Works

References

  1. ^ His father was Austin Stickney, A.B. Harvard 1852, professor of Latin at Trinity College, Hartford, and Harriet Champion Trumbull Stickney, of a Connecticut family descended from Gov. Jonathan Trumbull (obituary,Harvard Graduates Magazine, 13, 1904:242-44)
  2. ^ "Les sentences dans la poésie grecque d'Homère à Euripide". Société nouvelle de librairie et d'édition. 1903.
  3. ^ Obituary.
  4. ^ Best Poems of the English Language, Harper Collins, 2004, New York, New York
  • 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
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