Arlo Bates

Arlo Bates
Born	(1850-12-16)December 16, 1850 East Machias, Maine
Died	August 25, 1918(1918-08-25) (aged 67)[1] Boston, Massachusetts[1]
Alma mater	Bowdoin College
Spouse	Harriet Leonora Vose (d. 1886)[1]
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Arlo Bates (December 16, 1850 – August 25, 1918) was an American author, educator and newspaperman.

Biography

Arlo Bates was born at East Machias, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876. In 1880 Bates became the editor of the Boston Sunday Courier (1880–1893) and afterward became professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1900.^[2]

List of works

Novels:

• The Pagans (1884)^[3]
• The Wheel of Fire (1885)
• The Philistines (1888)^[4]
• Albrecht (1890)
• The Puritans (1899)^[5]
• Love in a Cloud (1900)

Collected Poems:

• Berries of the Brier (1886)
• Sonnets in Shadow, (1887)
• a Poet and his Self (1891)
• Told in the Gate (1892)
• The Torchbearers (1894)
• Under the Beech Tree (1899)

Collected Criticisms:

• Talks on Writing English (1897)
• Talks on the Study of Literature (1898)
• The Diary of a Saint (1902)
• Talks on Teaching Literature (1906)

Collected Stories:

• The Intoxicated Ghost (1908)

In 1912 he wrote an introduction to E. P. Whipple's Charles Dickens.

Notes

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• Arlo Bates papers at Bowdoin College
• Works by Arlo Bates at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Arlo Bates at Internet Archive
• Works by Arlo Bates at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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