Robert Hillyer

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Robert Silliman Hillyer (born June 3, 1895 in East Orange , New Jersey , † December 24, 1961 in Old Greenwich , Connecticut ) was an American poet and university professor.

Life and work

Hillyer went to Kent School in Kent (Connecticut) and attended Harvard University , which he graduated in 1917. After that, he volunteered for military service to the French front in the First World War . Together with John Dos Passos he was a medical soldier in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps . He was 1919-1920 and again 1928-1945 professor in English literature, and from 1937 Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. He also taught at Kenyon College in Gambier ( Ohio ) and from 1952 to 1961 at the University of Delaware . He was a member of the Epsilon chapter of St. Anthony Hall at Trinity College , Hartford , where he taught from 1926–1928. Hillyer was a prominent member of the Harvard Aesthetes group .

Title page of the Eight Harvard Poets band

He was traditional and conservative in his views and literary work. As the militant president of the Conservative Poetry Society of America , he fought against literary innovators such as Ezra Pound and TS Eliot . His works use meter and rhyme . He is also known for his sonnets and for poems such as Theme and Variations (about his war experiences) and the Letter to Robert Frost . The American composer Ned Rorem set Hillyer's poem Early in the Morning to music .

Hillyer had been married since 1926 and had one son. The literary estate is in the Syracuse University Library under the name Hillyer Papers .

Awards

Works

Volumes of poetry
  • The Collected Poems . Knopf, 1961.
  • The relic & other poems . Knopf, 1957.
  • The suburb by the sea: new poems . Knopf, 1952.
  • The death of Captain Nemo: a narrative poem . AA button, 1949.
  • Poems for music, 1917-1947 . AA button, 1947.
  • The Collected Verse of Robert Hillyer . AA button, 1933.
  • The Coming Forth by Day: An Anthology of Poems from the Egyptian Book of the Dead . BJ Brimmer Company, 1923.
  • Alchemy: A Symphonic Poem , illustrator Beatrice Stevens, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 1920.
  • The Five Books of Youth . Brentano’s , 1920.
  • Sonnets and Other Lyrics . Harvard University Press, 1917.
Novels
  • Riverhead (1932)
Essays
  • In Pursuit of Poetry . McGraw-Hill, 1960.
  • First Principles of Verse . The Writer, 1950.
Translations
Editorships
  • Kahlil Gibran : Hayim Musa Nahmad, Robert Hillyer (Eds.): A Tear and a Smile . AA Knopf, 1959.
  • Samuel Foster Damon, Robert Hillyer (Eds.): Eight More Harvard Poets . Brentano's, 1923.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biography.com: Entry Robert Silliman Hillyer  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 28, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / longislandsurnames.com  
  2. ↑ a b http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/hillyer.php
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 25, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.recmusic.org
  4. ^ Members: Robert S. Hillyer. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hillyer, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hillyer, Robert Silliman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lyric poet and college professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH East Orange , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1961
Place of death Old Greenwich , Connecticut