Richard Hovey

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Richard Hovey (born May 4, 1864 in Normal , Illinois , † February 24, 1900 in New York City ) was an American poet .

Life

Richard Hovey was one of the three sons of Charles Edward Hovey and Harriette Farnham Spofford Hovey. He graduated from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and studied in New York at General Theological Seminary. He then worked at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin and later taught English literature at Barnard College . He also lectured at Columbia University . Hovey was one of the first Maeterlinck students and translators in the United States. He wrote in the tradition of Walt Whitman and the Elizabethan poets, but also oriented himself on Verlaine and Mallarmé and tried to imitate the appearance of Oscar Wilde .

Together with Bliss Carman , whom he had known since 1887, he wrote three series of Songs from Vagabondia , which came out in 1893, 1896 and 1900 and are now mostly valued more highly than his plays. Frederick Field Bullard set a spring poem from these cycles to music. In 1891 he started Lancelot and Guenevere. A poem to publish in drama . He saw this as his main work. A total of three trilogies with a total of nine plays were to be created in this context, but Hovey was only able to complete four. The last play he could finish was Taliesin. A masque . It appeared in 1900 and was very controversial.

Hovey married Henriette Russell in 1894, with whom he had a son.

Richard Hovey House

Hovey's birthplace at 202 West Mulberry Avenue in Normal, which dates back to the 1850s, later became a memorial for the poet, but also commemorates his parents, Charles Edward Hovey, who ran the Normal Regiment, also known as the Brains Regiment, during the Civil War , led, and Harriette Farnham Spofford Hovey, who was also teaching. Charles Edward Hovey had founded a college for the training of school teachers in Normal in 1857 and ran this institution until the outbreak of war. By 1856 he had become president of the Illinois State Teachers' Association. Soon after the war ended, he sold the normal house he had built and moved his family to Washington, DC , where he practiced law and died in 1897.

Trivia

A ship bearing Hovey's name was sunk in 1944.

The lyrics of the song "When The Ship Is Thinking" on Bonaparte's 2012 album Sorry, We're Open corresponds almost verbatim to Hovey's poem "The Sea Gypsy".

literature

  • The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21). VOLUME XVII. Later National Literature, Part II., X. Later Poets

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http ://www. britica.com/EBchecked/topic/273353/Richard-Hovey
  2. ↑ http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Biographies/richard_hovey.htm
  3. ↑ http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/Richard_Hovey
  4. ↑ http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Illinois/_Texts/DRUOIH/Central_Illinois/9*.html
  5. ↑ http://www.usmm.org/felknorhovey.html
  6. ↑ http://www.bartleby.com/102/245.html
  7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmNUB_apSss
personal data
SURNAME Hovey, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Normal , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1900
Place of death New York City