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The Life and Writings of Henry Beck Hirst of Philadelphia (1925), title page and table of contents


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Title page:

 

 

 

THE LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF

HENRY BECK HIRST

OF

PHILADELPHIA

 

 

by Helen Lucile Watts

 

MAY, 1925

 

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the decree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University.

 

 

 

 


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Table of Contents

CONTENTS

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Preface   i
PART I — BIOGRAPHY   1
PART II — CRTICISM OF HIRST'S POEMS    
  1.   Early Poems Which Were Not Reprinted in His Books (1841-1848)   44
  2.   Poems in the Book of Cage Birds   61
  3.   The Coming of the Mammoth, The Funeral of Time, and Other Poems (1845)   64
  4.   Endymion. (1848)   84
  5.   The Penance of Roland, a Romance of the Peine Forte et Dure; and Other Poems (1849)   131
  6.   Late Poems Which Had Not Been Included in His Books. (1849-1852)   134
  7.   A General Estimate of Hirst as a Writer   139
PART III — BIBLIOGRAPHY    
  1.   References for Biography and Criticism   141
  2.   The Writings of Henry Beck Hirst   143
      a.) Books   143
      b.) Manuscript Poems   143
      c.) Publications in Periodicals   144

 



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Notes:

Helen Lucile Watts (1900-1966) was born in Sioux City, Iowa. She graduated with a B. A. from Smith College in 1921, where she majored in psychology, and an M. A. from Columbia in 1925, but did not pursue a higher degree. She taught at Hampton Institute in Virginia and Fiske University in Tennessee. In 1942, she married Mischa Meller (1904-1976), a concert pianist who had also taught music at Columbia University. During WWII, she was the registrar of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, and served as a counselor-adviser to doctors all over the world. Having apparently focused on her career, and marrying late in life, she had no children. She died in the Bronx, NY, and is buried with her parents in Druid Ridge Cemetery in Pikesville, Maryland, although she does not have her own marker.

 

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