Katherine Garrison Chapin

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Katherine Garrison Chapin (also: Katherine Biddle ; born September 4, 1890 in Waterford, Connecticut ; died December 30, 1977 in Devon, Pennsylvania ) was an American writer .

Life

Katherine Garrison Chapin was the daughter of Lindley H. Chapin and the sculptor Cornelia Van Auken Chapin . The philanthropist Charlotte Mason was her aunt. She attended private schools and graduated from Columbia University . Since the late 1920s, her poems have been printed in various magazines including Harper’s , Scribner’s, Saturday Review, North American Review, Poetry and the Ladies' Home Journal. Some of her poems have been set to music and performed by major orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra , the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Mexico. The ballad "And They Lynched Him on a Tree" premiered in June 1940, set by the Afro-American William Grant Still . Her own poetry recitation has been recorded for the Library of Congress and the Harvard University Library .

Politically, Chapin was liberal and stood up against racial discrimination in the United States and after the Second World War against McCarthyism with her husband . Together with Karl Shapiro , she voted in 1948 against the award of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry to the fascist and anti-Semite Ezra Pound .

Since April 27, 1918 she was married to the lawyer Francis Biddle and had two sons with him.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Chinese deer , 1975
  • The prose he did not write , 1965 (Review of Selected letters of Robert Frost)
  • The other journey ; poems new and selected; 1959
  • Saint-John Perse: notes on some poetic contrasts , 1952
  • Sojourner Truth , 1948
  • Plain-chant for America ; poems and ballads, 1942
  • Harbor night , 1945
  • Spring sabbath morning: (Williamsburg, Virginia) by Sydney King Russell , 1946
  • Time has no shadow , 1936
  • Bright Mariner , 1933
  • Outside of the world , 1930
  • The Tapestry of the Duchess , 1925

Settings

  • Mary Howe : Williamsburg Sunday, for a cappella chorus of mixed voices , New York, C. Fischer, 1955
  • Sydney King Russell: Spring sabbath morning: (Williamsburg, Virginia) Song for low voice with piano, 1946
  • William Grant Still: Plain Chant for America: for baritone voice with orchestral accompaniment , 1941
  • William Grant Still: They Lynched Him on a Tree, cantata for narrator, alto, choir and orchestra , 1940
  • Harl McDonald : "Lament for the Stolen", for female choir and orchestra, premiered on December 30, 1938 by the Philadelphia Orchestra . About the kidnapping of Charles Lindberg's child .

literature

  • William F. Claire: This unpredictable bloom. The poetry of Katherine Garrison Chapin (= Writers Chap Book 1). Writers Chap Book, Washington DC 1970.
  • Katherine Biddle: Saint-John Perse Intimate. Journal inédit d'une amie américaine (1940–1970) (= Cahiers Saint-John Perse. 20 Les cahiers de la NRF ). Texts édité, traduit et présenté by Carol Rigolot. Gallimard, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-07-013302-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wayne D. Shirley: William Grant Still's Choral Ballad and They Lynched Him on a Tree. In: American Music. Vol. 12, No. 4, Winter, 1994, ISSN  0734-4392 , pp. 425-461 jstor .
personal data
SURNAME Chapin, Katherine Garrison
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chapin, Catherine Garrison; Biddle, Katherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Waterford, Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1977
Place of death Devon, Pennsylvania