Katharine Lee Bates

Katharine Lee Bates

Katharine Lee Bates (born August 12, 1859 in Falmouth , Massachusetts , † March 28, 1929 in Wellesley , Massachusetts) was an American teacher , poet and author . Lee Bates was the poet of the anthem America the Beautiful .

Life

Bates attended Wellesley High School until 1874 and then studied at Wellesley College until 1880 . She taught at Natick High School from 1880 to 1881 and then from 1885 to 1889 at Dana Hall School. From 1893 she worked as a professor for English-language literature at Wellesley College. As an author, she wrote poetry, travel literature and children's books. She has published her works - sometimes under the pseudonym James Lincoln - in various publications such as Atlantic Monthly , The Congregationalist , Boston Evening Transcript , Christian Century , Contemporary Verse , Lippincott’s and Delineator . As a longtime Republican, she publicly announced in 1924 that she would vote for the Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis because the Republicans opposed US membership in the League of Nations . In Wellesley, Bates lived and lived with her partner, the history teacher Katharine Coman . Bates died in Wellesley in 1929, where she was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery .

Works (selection)

Author

• The College Beautiful, and Other Poems , Houghton (Cambridge, MA), 1887
• Rose and Thorn , Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society (Boston, MA), 1889
• Hermit Island , Lothrop (Boston, MA), 1890
• Sunshine, and Other Verses for Children , Wellesley Alumnae (Boston, MA), 1890
• The English Religious Drama , Macmillan (New York, NY), 1893, reprint, Kennikat Press (Port Washington, NY), 1966
• American Literature , Chautauqua Press (New York, NY), 1897
• Spanish Highways and Byways , Macmillan (New York, NY), 1900
• (as James Lincoln :) Relishes of Rhyme , Richard G. Badger (Boston, MA), 1903
• From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England , photographed by Katharine Coman, Crowell (New York, NY), 1907
• The Story of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims , Rand, McNally (Chicago, IL), 1909
• America the Beautiful, and Other Poems , Crowell (New York, NY), 1911
• In Sunny Spain with Pilarica and Rafael , Dutton (New York, NY), 1913
• Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims , Katharine Lee Bates, Rand, McNally (Chicago, IL), 1914
• Fairy Gold , Dutton, (New York, NY), 1916
• The Retinue, and Other Poems , Dutton (New York, NY), 1918
• Sigurd Our Golden Collie, and Other Comrades of the Road , Dutton (New York, NY), 1919
• Yellow Clover, A Book of Remembrance , Dutton (New York, NY), 1922
• Little Robin Stay-Behind, and Other Plays in Verse for Children , Woman's Press (New York, NY), 1923
• The Pilgrim Ship , Woman's Press (New York, NY), 1926
• America the Dream , Crowell (New York, NY), 1930
• To Autobiography, in Letter, of Katharine Lee Bates , Enterprise Press (Falmouth, MA), 1930
• Selected Poems of Katharine Lee Bates , edited by Marion Pelton Guild, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1930

Editor

• The Wedding Day Book , Lothrop (Boston, MA), 1882, published as The Wedding-Day Book, with the Congratulations of the Poets , Lothrop (Boston, MA), 1895
• Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Ancient Mariner , Leach, Shewell & Sanborn (Boston, MA), 1889
• Ballad Book , Leach, Shewell & Sanborn (Boston, MA), 1890, reprinted, Books for Libraries Press (Freeport, NY), 1969
• Shakespeare's Comedy of The Merchant of Venice , Leach, Shewell & Sanborn (Boston, MA), 1894
• Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer Night's Dream , Leach, Shewell & Sanborn (Boston, MA), 1895
• Shakespeare's Comedy of As You Like It , Leach, Shewell & Sanborn (Boston, MA), 1896
• Stories from the Chap-Book , Stone (Chicago, IL), 1896
• Keats's The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems , Silver, Burdett, (New York, NY), 1902
• The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne , 14th Edition, Crowell (New York, NY), 1902
• Hamilton Wright Mabie, Norse Stories Retold from the Eddas , Rand, McNally, Chicago, 1902
• The Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary , Crowell (New York, NY), 1903
• John Ruskin, The King of the Golden River; or, the Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria , illustrated by John C. Johansen, Rand, McNally (Chicago, IL), 1903
• Tennyson's The Princess , American Book Co. (New York, NY), 1904
• Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, The Passing of Arthur , Sibley (Boston, MA), 1905
• The New Irish Drama , Drama League of America (Chicago, IL), 1911
• Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness, and the Faire Maide of the West , Heath (Boston, MA), 1917
• Once upon a time; A Book of Old-Time Fairy Tales , illustrated by Margaret Evans Price, Rand, McNally (Chicago, IL), 1921
• Tom Thumb and Other Old-Time Fairy Tales , illustrated by Price, Rand, McNally (Chicago, IL), 1926
• Jack the Giant-Killer , Rand, McNally (Chicago, IL), 1937
• Jack and the Beanstalk; also Toads and Diamonds , Rand, McNally (Chicago, IL), 1937

translator

• Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Romantic Legends of Spain, Crowell (New York). together with Cornelia Frances Bates

literature

• Dorothy Burgess, Dream and Deed: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952)
• "Katharine Lee Bates", in: Notable American Women: The Modern Period, A Biographical dDictionary, edited by Barbara Sicherman, Carol Hurd Green with Ilene Kantrov, Harriette Walker (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980)
• Almanac of Famous People, 6th Edition, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1998
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 71: American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1880-1900, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1988.
• Encyclopedia of World Biography, Second Edition, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1998
• Gay and Lesbian Literature, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1998
• Vida Dutton Scudder, On Journey, EP Dutton (New York, NY), 1937
• Michael Drury, "Why She Wrote America's Favorite Song," Reader's Digest, July 1993, pp. 90-93
• Deb. Price, The Bellingham Herald, July 4, 1998: "Two women's love made 'America' Beautiful"

Web links

• The Origin of American Christmas Myth and Customs
• SongWritersHallofFame: Katharine Lee Bates

Individual evidence

1. ^ New York Times: REPUBLICAN WOMEN DECLARE FOR DAVIS; Seven New Yorkers and Prof. Bates of Wellesley State Their Views.
2. ↑ "My soul is Among Lions": Katharine Lee Bates's Account of the Illness and Death of Katharine Coman ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.