Arlo Bates (December 16, 1850 – August 25, 1918) was an American author, educator and newspaperman.
Biography
Arlo Bates was born at
East Machias
East Machias is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States on the East Machias River. At the 2020 census, the town population was 1,326. It is the home of Washington Academy, a private school founded in 1792.
Geography
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Maine. He graduated from
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college offers 34 majors and 36 minors, as well as several joint eng ...
in 1876. In 1880 Bates became the editor of the
Boston ''
Sunday Courier'' (1880–1893) and afterward became
professor of English at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1900.
List of works
Novels:
*''The
Pagan
Paganism (from classical Latin ''pāgānus'' "rural", "rustic", later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, or ethnic religions other than Judaism. ...
s'' (1884)
*''The Wheel of Fire'' (1885)
*''The
Philistines'' (1888)
*''Albrecht'' (1890)
*''The
Puritans'' (1899)
*''Love in a Cloud'' (1900)
Collected Poems:
*''Berries of the Brier'' (1886)
*''Sonnets in Shadow'', (1887)
*''a Poet and his Self'' (1891)
*''Told in the Gate'' (1892)
*''The Torchbearers'' (1894)
*''Under the Beech Tree'' (1899)
Collected Criticisms:
*''Talks on Writing English'' (1897)
*''Talks on the Study of Literature'' (1898)
*''The Diary of a Saint'' (1902)
*''Talks on Teaching Literature'' (1906)
Collected Stories:
*''The Intoxicated
Ghost
A ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to rea ...
'' (1908)
In 1912 he wrote an introduction to
E. P. Whipple's ''
Charles Dickens''.
Notes
References
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External links
Arlo Bates papersat
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college offers 34 majors and 36 minors, as well as several joint eng ...
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1850 births
1918 deaths
American newspaper editors
19th-century American novelists
Novelists from Massachusetts
Bowdoin College alumni
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty
People from East Machias, Maine
American male novelists
19th-century American male writers
American male non-fiction writers
Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters