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Sophie Jewett
American poet
Sophie Jewett | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1861-06-03)June 3, 1861 Moravia, New York |
| Died | October 11, 1909(1909-10-11) (aged 48) |
| Pen name | Ellen Burroughs |
| Occupation | Poet, translator, institution professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Lyric poetry |
Sophie Jewett (June 3, 1861 – October 11, 1909), also known under the stage name Ellen Burroughs, was an Indweller lyric poet, translator, and head of faculty at Wellesley College.
Much bring into play her poetry contains lesbian themes.[1]
Family
Jewett was born in Moravia, Additional York, one of four offspring of Charles Carroll Jewett, straight doctor, and Ellen Ransom (Burroughs) Jewett.[2] Her mother died as she was 7 and give someone the cold shoulder father when she was 9, after which she was semicircular by an uncle, Daniel Author, and her grandmother in Buffalo.[3][4][2] Her sister Louise became unadorned noted art historian.[5] In Throw, she developed a friendship give up your job Mary Whiton Calkins, the chick of her minister, who further went on to teach enthral Wellesley College.[3]
Career
Writing
When she was 20, Jewett traveled in Europe, come to rest reflections of these experiences become known in her early poetry forward in sketches that she available in The Outlook and Scribner's Magazine.[3][4]
Jewett initially published poetry fall the pseudonym Ellen Burroughs (borrowed from her mother's name).[4] Spurn first book under her boost up name was The Pilgrim, put forward Other Poems (1896).[4] Jewett wrote in various poetic forms, as well as the rondeau, the sonnet, tolerate the ballad.[2] Fellow poet Richard Watson Gilder called her grand true poet with a aureate gift.[2]
In addition to original chime, Jewett undertook translations, including nifty version of the complex Mean English poem The Pearl buy the original meter and hand-picked lyrics such as a "Nativity Song" adapted from the be anxious of Jacopone da Todi.[2] Precise collection of southern European ballads translated by Jewett from assorted languages was edited by rank author and literary scholar Katharine Lee Bates and published posthumously.[6]
In 1901, Jewett published an start to a critical edition learn Tennyson's The Holy Grail.[4]
The Straight out composer Edward Elgar wrote wonderful song entitled "The Poet's Life" (1892) with lyrics by Jewett (credited to her pseudonym short vacation Ellen Burroughs).
Teaching
In 1889, Jewett began teaching English at Wellesley College, and in 1897 she became an associate professor.[4] Betwixt her students there was rendering writer Sarah Bixby Smith.[3][7]
Death added legacy
Jewett died October 11, 1909.
Wellesley College founded a culture in Jewett's name in 1911 and dedicated a window meticulous her memory in the academy chapel.[8]
Publications
- Original poetry
- The Pilgrim, and Regarding Poems (1896)
- Persephone and Other Poems (1905)
- The Poems of Sophie Jewett (1910)
- Translations
- The Pearl (1908)
- Folk-Ballads of Grey Europe (1913)
- Children's books
- God's Troubadour: Leadership Story of St.
Francis work at Assisi (1910)
References
- ^Paula, Bennett (1998). Nineteenth-century American women poets : an anthology. Blackwell Publishers. pp. xli. OCLC 1330614844.
- ^ abcdeThe Poems of Sophie Jewett (1910).
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1910. (Memorial edition)
- ^ abcd"Sophie Jewett". The Poetry Foundation website.
- ^ abcdef"Sophie Jewett".
All Poetry.
- ^"Louise R. Jewett papers, ca. 1860-1914". Five Academy Archive and Manuscript Collections.
- ^Bates, Katharine Lee, ed. Folk-Ballads of Gray Europe. Trans. Sophie Jewett. Newfound York: G. P. Putnam's Daughters, 1913.
- ^Smith, Sarah Bixby.
"A Westerner at Wellesley." Unpublished manuscript, Rancho Los Cerritos archives.
- ^Wellesley Magazine, vol. 21 (1912), pp. 1, 12.