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'''Joseph Trumbull Stickney''' (June 20, 1874 – October 11, 1904) was an American [[classics|classical scholar]] and [[poet]]. His style has been characterised{{By whom|date=December 2008}} as ''[[fin de siècle]]'' and he is known{{By whom|date=December 2008}} for his [[sonnet]]s in particular. |
'''Joseph Trumbull Stickney''' (June 20, 1874 – October 11, 1904) was an American [[classics|classical scholar]] and [[poet]]. His style has been characterised{{By whom|date=December 2008}} as ''[[fin de siècle]]'' and he is known{{By whom|date=December 2008}} for his [[sonnet]]s in particular. |
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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 [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]]. He wrote there two dissertations, one on [[Ermolao Barbaro]], and the other on ''Les Sentences dans la Poésie |
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 [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]]. He wrote there two dissertations, one on [[Ermolao Barbaro]], and the other on ''Les Sentences dans la Poésie Grecque''. His was the first non-[[francophone]] ''docteur ès lettres''. |
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He then took a teaching position at Harvard, but died in [[Boston]] of a [[brain tumour]] about a year later. |
He then took a teaching position at Harvard, but died in [[Boston]] of a [[brain tumour]] about a year later. |
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Stickney's poem "Song" is plagiarized in the 2006 film ''[[The Good Shepherd (film)|The Good Shepherd]]'' by a Yale professor of English in a failed attempt to seduce the protagonist, portrayed by Matt Damon. |
Stickney's poem "Song" is plagiarized in the de Niro's 2006 film ''[[The Good Shepherd (film)|The Good Shepherd]]'' by a Yale professor of English in a failed attempt to seduce the protagonist, portrayed by Matt Damon. |
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==Works== |
==Works== |
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Revision as of 08:00, 6 October 2010
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 Grecque. His was the first non-francophone docteur ès 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 de Niro's 2006 film The Good Shepherd by a Yale professor of English in a failed attempt to seduce the protagonist, portrayed by Matt Damon.
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
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