Clinton Scollard Explained

Clinton Scollard
Birth Date:18 September 1860
Birth Place:Clinton, New York
Death Place:Kent, Connecticut
Education:Harvard UniversityCambridge University
Alma Mater:Hamilton College (1881)
Nationality:American
Children:Elizabeth Parlon
Parents:Dr. James I. and Elizabeth S. Scollard
Notable Works:"As I Came Down from Lebanon"
Occupation:Poet
Signature:Signature of Clinton Scollard.png

Clinton Scollard (1860–1932) was an American poet and writer of fiction. He was a Professor of English at Hamilton College.

Professional career

Scollard was born at Clinton, Oneida County, New York on September 18, 1860, son of James Isaac and Mary Elizabeth (Stevens) Scollard.[1] [2] He graduated from the Clinton Liberal Institute in 1877 and Hamilton College in 1881,[2] and in 1881–1883 attended Harvard University,[3] where his friends included poets Bliss Carman and Frank Dempster Sherman. At Hamilton, where he was a member of the Chi Psi fraternity, he played varsity baseball and is credited with introducing the curveball to college baseball.

After a period in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he spent two years at the University of Cambridge in England.[2] In 1888 he became an Associate Professor of English at Hamilton College, where he remained until 1896. He built the house at 70 College St. in Clinton.Except for a further year in the English Department at Hamilton College in 1911, he devoted the rest of his life to creative writing.[4] Hamilton granted him an honorary L.H.D. in 1906.[5]

Associates

Scollard corresponded with Martha Foote Crowe.[6] Oley Speaks composed the song "Sylvia" to lyrics by Scollard. Dagmar de Corval Rybner used Scollard’s text for her composition “A Song.”[7]

Family

On July 3, 1890 Scollard married Georgia Brown of Jackson, Michigan; they had one daughter Elizabeth Scollard Parlon, but they divorced in early 1924.[1] "On March 20, 1924, Scollard married fellow poet Jessie Belle Rittenhouse in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California."[8] [9] They had no children.

Clinton Scollard died at his home in Kent, Connecticut on November 19, 1932.[10]

Assessment

Scollard has been characterized as a minor poet but a fine technician:

Principal works of verse

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Dictionary of American Biography (Vol. VIII). 1935. 485.
  2. Book: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography . VI . James T. White & Company . 58 . 1896 . 2020-11-25 . Google Books.
  3. Book: Rittenhouse, Jessie B. . The Little Book of Modern Verse . Bartleby.com . 2002 . 1917 . New York City .
  4. Book: Haralson, Eric L. . John Hollander . Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century . Routledge . 1998 . 978-1-57958-008-7 . registration .
  5. Book: National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (Vol. 23) . 1933 . 160 .
  6. Web site: Martha Foot Crowe Papers . Syracuse University Library Finding Aids . Syracuse University . 2007 . 19 Dec 2010.
  7. Book: Stewart-Green, Miriam . Women composers: A checklist of works for the solo voice . 1980 . Hall . 978-0-8161-8498-9 . A reference publication in women's studies . Boston, Mass . 62.
  8. Book: Haralson, Eric L. . Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century . John Hollander . Routledge . 1998 . 978-1-57958-008-7 . 379 . registration.
  9. News: Herb Westen . March 20, 1924 . Carmel Poets Wed After Two Decade Scret Romance . 2024-04-21 . San Francisco Bulletin San Francisco, California . 1.
  10. News: Clinton Scollard, 72, Dies In Kent; Poet And Educator . . AP . Kent, Connecticut . 22 . 1932-11-20 . 2020-11-25 . Newspapers.com.
  11. Web site: Daisy F. Bostick . March 29, 1924 . Gay Carmel to Act Up in Own Theater . 2024-04-18 . San Francisco Bulletin . San Francisco, California . 23.

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