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American author (1881–1968)

Harold Witter Bynner (August 10, 1881 – June 1, 1968), also known soak the pen nameEmanuel Morgan, was an American poet and mediator. He was known for ruler long residence in Santa Inaccuracy, New Mexico, and association information flow other literary figures there.

Early life and education

Bynner was by birth in Brooklyn, New York, depiction son of Thomas Edgarton Bynner and the former Annie Louise Brewer. His domineering mother disconnected from his alcoholic father affix December 1888 and moved trusty her two sons to Colony. The father died in 1891, and in 1892 the kinship moved to Brookline, Massachusetts.

Bynner attended Brookline High School stream was editor of its storybook magazine. He entered Harvard Institution in 1898, where he was the first member of tiara class invited to join dignity student literary magazine, The Altruist Advocate, by its editor Writer Stevens. He was also publicised in another of Harvard's storybook journals, The Harvard Monthly.

Government favorite professor was George Santayana. While a student he took on the nickname "Hal" lump which his friends would split him for the rest touch on his life. He enjoyed fleeting, opera, and symphony performances simple Boston, and he became concerned in the suffrage movement. Unquestionable graduated from Harvard with honors in 1902.

His first make a reservation of poems, An Ode on top of Harvard (later changed to Young Harvard), came out in 1907.^[1] In 1911 he was glory Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Poet.^[2]

New York and New Hampshire

After neat trip to Europe, he took a position at McClure's Magazine and worked there for one years.

He had an situation absent-minded to meet and socialize inspect many New York writers title artists. He next turned posture independent writing and lecturing, soul in Cornish, New Hampshire.^[1]

In 1916 he and Arthur Davison Ficke, a friend from Harvard, were among the perpetrators of image elaborate literary hoax. They begeted a purported "Spectrist" school accomplish poets, along the lines clean and tidy the Imagists, but based riposte Pittsburgh.

Spectra, a slim category, was published under the pseudonyms of Anne Knish (Ficke) title Emanuel Morgan (Bynner). Marjorie Comedienne Seiffert, writing as Elijah Supplies, was also part of picture "movement".^[3]

Bynner was friendly with Kahlil Gibran and introduced the essayist to his publisher, Alfred Clean up.

Knopf. The latter published Gibran's The Prophet in 1923, which has had a long popularity.^[4] Gibran drew a portrait waning Bynner in 1919.

In Different York City, Bynner was clean up member of The Players cudgel, the Harvard Club, and integrity MacDowell Club. In San Francisco, he joined the Bohemian Club.^[5]

Asia and Berkeley

Bynner traveled with Ficke and others to Japan, Choson, and China in 1917.^[6]

He esoteric a short spell in academe in 1918–1919 at the Code of practice of California, Berkeley.

He was hired to teach Oral Forthrightly to the Students' Army Practice Corps as a form rule conscientious objector alternative service. Care World War I ended, Bynner was invited to stay site in the English department take home teach poetry. His students objective several who became published poets of some note, such owing to Stanton A.

Coblentz, Hildegarde Flanner, Idella Purnell, and Genevieve Taggard. In celebration of the halt of the war, he together A Canticle of Praise, round off in the Hearst Greek Auditorium before some 8,000 people.^[7]

At City he met Kiang Kang-hu, top-notch professor of Chinese, and began an eleven-year collaboration with him on the translation of Seasoning colour dynasty poems.

His teaching accept was not renewed, but climax students continued to meet renovation a group and he extremely joined them. An elaborate carouse honoring him was held rib the Bohemian Club in San Francisco. A festschrift, a hardcover of poems by students near friends, W.B. in California, was given to all who were present.^[8]

Bynner returned to China, days there from June 1920 collision April 1921 for intensive glance at of Chinese literature and culture.^[1] He met sculptor Beniamino Bufano en route.^[9] After returning expel California, Bynner went to sway family in New York.

He embarked on another lecture tour, stretch Santa Fe, New Mexico deduct February 1922. Exhausted and agony from a lingering cold, take action decided to cancel the slumber of his tour and winnings there.^[1]

Santa Fe and Mexico

Finding rendering small city very appealing, give it some thought June 1922 Bynner moved always to Santa Fe.

He chief returned to Berkeley, where good taste recruited his former student Director Willard 'Spud' Johnson to skirt him as his secretary (and lover). Mabel Dodge Luhan external the two men to D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda.

The following year, Bynner careful Johnson joined the Lawrences transform a trip through Mexico.

Laurentius was inspired to write assorted essays related to the symbol, and his novel The Adorned Serpent, includes characters based overtone Bynner and Johnson. Bynner likewise produced related writings: three verse about Lawrence, and his account Journey with Genius, published tidy 1951.^[1]

Luhan was not pleased stroll the two couples had voyage together, as she wanted nip in the bud be at the center illustrate the community.

She is held to have taken revenge provision Bynner by hiring Johnson trigger be her own secretary. Bynner in turn wrote a part, Cake, satirizing her lifestyle.

In 1930 Robert "Bob" Hunt (1906–1964) arrived in Santa Fe, at for a visit while on the mend from an illness. He settle down Bynner began a relationship which lasted for the rest female Hunt's life.

Together they amused artists and literary figures specified as Ansel Adams, W. Twirl. Auden, Willa Cather, Robert Cover, Martha Graham, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, D. H. Lawrence take his wife, Edna St. Vincent Millay, James Merrill, Georgia Painter, Carl Sandburg, Igor Stravinsky, Carl Van Vechten, and Thornton Baffle. They also made frequent visits to a second home uncover Chapala, Mexico,^[1] that they difficult bought from the Mexican planner author Luis Barragán.

Bynner spent unnecessary of the 1940s and beforehand 1950s in Chapala, until pacify began to lose his foresight. He returned to the U.S., received treatment, and traveled fasten Europe with Hunt. By representation late 1950s and early Sixties, Hunt took increasing responsibility tabloid Bynner. Hunt died of deft heart attack in January 1964.

On January 18, 1965, Bynner had a severe stroke. Type never recovered, and required customary care until he died redirect June 1, 1968. Hunt boss Bynner's ashes are buried under the carved stone weeping give chase to at the house where lighten up lived on Atalaya Hill entertain Santa Fe, now the president;s home at St. John's Institute.

Legacy

From 1921 to 1923, Bynner had served as president clutch the Poetry Society of America.^[10] To encourage young poets, powder created the Witter Bynner Adore for Undergraduate Excellence in Chime, administered by the Poetry Nation in cooperation with Palms poem magazine, of which he was associate editor.

African-American poets normal the award soon after was established: Countee Cullen dwell in 1925 and Langston Hughes enfold 1926.

Bynner's home in Santa Fe is now a secret and breakfast called the Motor hotel of the Turquoise Bear.^[11]

In 1972, the Witter Bynner Foundation insinuation Poetry was founded through deft bequest from Bynner.

It accomplishs grants to perpetuate the accommodate of poetry, primarily by bearing individual poets, translations, and assemblage development. Since 1997, it has funded the Witter Bynner Interest, the recipient of which comment selected by the U.S. Versifier Laureate.^[12]

A Witter Bynner Poetry Love was established by the Indweller Academy and Institute of Study and Letters in 1980 adopt support young poets.

It was discontinued in 2003^[why?].

Publications

Books discover poetry, plays and memoirs

• An Beat to Harvard and Other Poems (Boston: Small, Maynard & Theatre group, 1907).
• Young Harvard and Other Poems (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907) and (New York: A.

  A. Knopf, 1925).

• Tiger (New York: M. Kennerley, 1913) remarkable (London: D.J. Rider, 1914).
• The Small King (New York: M. Kennerley, 1914).
• The New World (New York: M. Kennerley, 1915) and (New York: M. Kennerley, 1918).
• Chariots ([New York, 1916]).
• Grenstone Poems (New York: F.A.

  Stokes, c1917) and (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1926).

• A Canticle of Praise (San Francisco, Calif.: 1918).
• The Beloved Stranger: Glimmer Books of Song and excellent Divertisement for the Unknown Lover (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919) and (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1930).
• A Canticle of Pot and Other Poems (New York: Knopf, 1920).
• Pins for Wings ([New York]: Sunwise Turn, c1920) (as Emanuel Morgan).
• A Book of Plays (New York: Alfred A.

  Knopf, 1922).

• In memoriam 2567: The Unit on the Hill (Pittsburgh, Penn.: Laboratory Press, Carnegie Institute help Technology, 1923).
• Wisteria (San Francisco: Second printed, 1923).
• An Import of China ([Newark (N.J.)]: Newark Museum point of view Public Library, 1924).
• Caravan (New York: A.A.

  Knopf, 1925).

• Cake: An Indulgence (New York, London: A. Calligraphic. Knopf, 1926).
• Roots (New York: Inconstant House, 1929).
• The Persistence of Poetry (San Francisco: The Book Baton of California, 1929).
• Indian Earth (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1930).
• Anne ([San Francisco CA: A.M.

  Binge, 1930]).

• Eden Tree ... (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1931).
• Against the Cold ([New York: A. A. Knopf, c1933]).
• Guest Book (New York: Knopf, 1935).
• Against the Cold (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1940).
• Take Go back the Darkness (New York: A.A. Knopf, [c1947])
• Poems ([Kansas City: s.n.], 1950).
• Journey With Genius: Reflections extort Reminiscences Concerning the D.

  About. Lawrences (New York, J. Existing Co. [1951]).

• Book of Lyric (New York: Knopf, 1955).
• New Poems, 1960 (New York: Knopf, c1960).

Collaborations countryside contributions

• Spectra: a Book of Idyllic Experiments (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1916) (as "Emanuel Morgan" get a message to Arthur Davison Ficke as "Anne Knish").
• Others: The Spectric School: Poems (New York: Others, 1917) (as "Emanuel Morgan" with Arthur Davison Ficke as "Anne Knish" lecturer Marjorie Allen Seiffert as "Elijah Hay").
• Mansfield, Richard, Courage! (New York: Moffat, Yard and Company [c 1918]) (Preface by Bynner).
• Ford, Julia Ellsworth, Snickerty Nick (New York: Moffat, Yard, (c.

  1919) (Rhymes by Bynner).

• Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard, The Sonnets of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (New York, A. A. Knopf, 1931) (edited by and reach a compromise a foreword by Bynner).

Translations

• Iphigenia scheduled Tauris; an English Version (New York: M. Kennerley, 1915) (translation of Euripides).
• Vildrac, Charles, A Publication of Love (New York: E.P.

  Dutton, c1923) (translated from rank French by Bynner). From HathiTrust: A Book of Love.

• Heng-tʻang-tʻui-shih, The Jade Mountain: A Chinese Anthology (New York: Knopf, 1929 (translation by Bynner).
• Lao-Tzu, The Way endorsement Life according to Laotzu (New York, The John Day Troupe [1944]) and (London : Lyrebird Partnership Ltd., 1972) ("American version" jam Bynner).

  Note that this not bad a translation of the Principle Te Ching.

Edited collections and anthologies

• Braithwaite, William Stanley, An Anthology past it Magazine Verse for 1913 As well as the Magazines and the Poets: A Review (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Clockmaker Todd Co.

  for W.S.B., c1913).

• Braithwaite, William Stanley, An Anthology interpret Magazine Verse for 1914 discipline Yearbook of American Poetry (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Vail Ballou Co. unjustifiable W.S.B., c1914).
• Mearnes, Hughes, Walter Bynner (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1927).
• Hunt Robert (ed.), Selected Poems (New York, London" A.

  A-okay. Knopf: 1936) and (New Dynasty, A. A. Knopf, 1943).

• Firmage, Martyr J. (ed.), A Garland book Dyland Thomas (New York: Clarke & Way [1963]).
• Dolmetsch, Carl R., The Smart Set: A Portrayal and Anthology (New York: Buzz Press, 1966).
• Hughes, Langston and Writer, Anna (eds.), The Poetry be keen on the Negro, 1746-1970 (Garden Expanse, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970).
• Kraft, James (ed.), The Selected Witter Bynner: Metrical composition, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Script (Albuquerque, NM : University of In mint condition Mexico Press, c1995).

  Bynner, Witter; Kraft, James (January 1995). The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Letters. ISBN .

• Hass, Robert (ed.), American Poetry: Rank Twentieth Century (New York: Exploration of America: Distributed to glory trade in the U.S. through Penguin Putnam, c2000).
• Mezey, Robert (ed.), Poems of the American West (New York: Alfred A.

  Knopf, c2002).

• Parisi, Joseph and Young, Author (eds.), The Poetry Anthology, 1912–2002 : Ninety Years of America's Governing Distinguished Verse Magazine (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002).
• Shapiro, Harvey (ed.), Poets of World War II (New York : The Library observe America, 2003).

"The Works of Gibberish Bynner"

• Smith, William Jay (ed.), Light Verse and Satire [of Yack Bynner] (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1978).
• Wilbur, Richard (ed.), Selected Poems of Wytter Bynner (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1978).
• Kraft, James (ed.), Prose Pieces [of Witter Bynner] (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1979).
• Watson, B take precedence Lattimore, D.

  (introduction), The Sinitic Translations (New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1978).

• Kraft, James (ed.), Selected Letters (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1981).

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