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George Sterling
George Sterling (December 1, 1869 – November 17, 1926) was an American writer based in the San Francisco, California Bay Area and Carmel-by-the-Sea. He was considered a prominent poet and playwright and proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century. His work was admired by writers as diverse as Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, H. P. Lovecraft, H. L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, and Clark Ashton Smith. In addition, Sterling played a major role in the growth of the California cities of Oakland, Piedmont, and Carmel-by-the-Sea. Literary career and critical responses During George Sterling's thirty-year career as a writer, he wrote songs, plays, movies, short stories, essays, and more than a thousand poems. His works were published in nearly all American literary magazines, in more than a hundred newspapers, in anthologies, and in his own books. He earned several literary awards. Although some critics of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Play Of Everyman
''The Play of Everyman'' is American poet and playwright George Sterling's adaptation of Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal's 1911 German play ''Jedermann (play), Jedermann''. Lavish productions of ''The Play of Everyman'' in 1917 and 1936 were acclaimed by critics and boosted the careers of people involved. Sterling's adaptation was also staged in 1941 in New York City and 1977 in Brentwood, Los Angeles. Creation of ''The Play of Everyman'' Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal combined the Middle English play ''Everyman'' with three other medieval plays to make one new play in German: ''Jedermann (play), Jedermann: Das Spiel vom Sterben des reichen Mannes''. His German play was a success in Berlin in 1911. A paperback book of the German ''Jedermann'' sold well enough to require several printings. Austrian-Polish stage and film director Ryszard "Richard" Ordynski acquired the rights from Hofmannsthal to stage an English language version of ''Jedermann'' and to print it as a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sag Harbor, New York
Sag Harbor is an Administrative divisions of New York#Village, incorporated village in Suffolk County, New York, United States, in the Administrative divisions of New York#Town, towns of Southampton, New York, Southampton and East Hampton (town), New York, East Hampton on eastern Long Island. The village developed as a working port on Gardiners Bay. The population was 2,772 at the 2020 census. The entire business district is listed as the historic Sag Harbor Village District on the National Register of Historic Places. A major whaling and shipping port in the 19th century, by the end of this period and in the 20th century, it became a destination for wealthy people who summered there. Sag Harbor is about three-fifths in Southampton and two-fifths in East Hampton; the town boundary being Division Street. Its landmarks include structures associated with whaling and its early days when it was designated as the first port of entry to the new United States. It had the first United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prehistoric Fiction
Prehistoric Fiction is a science fiction subgenre in which the story is set in the ages prior to the existence of written records, generally known as prehistory. A span of time that may include as its fictional setting the three periods of Stone Age; the Paleolithic, Mesolithic or Neolithic as well as the Metal Ages. Even earlier periods of the Cenozoic and Mesozoic have been the subject of fiction including extinct mammals and dinosaurs. As a literary genre the description of the subjects can vary widely, from the realistic to the fantastic, without necessarily having any commitment to developing an objective anthropological, archaeological or paleontological account. Because of this, a given author of prehistoric fiction will often deal with their subjects with more creative license than the author of serious historical fiction. The genre also has connections with speculative fiction. In many such narratives for instance, humans and dinosaurs live together, despite the extinction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robinson Jeffers
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962) was an American poet known for his work about the central California coast. Much of Jeffers' poetry was written in narrative and Epic poetry, epic form. However, he is also known for his shorter verse and is considered an icon of the environmental movement. Influential and highly regarded in some circles, despite or because of his philosophy of "inhumanism", Jeffers believed that transcending conflict required human concerns to be de-emphasized in favor of the boundless whole. This led him to oppose U.S. participation in World War II, a stance that was controversial after the U.S. entered the war. Life Jeffers was born January 10, 1887, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), the son of Reverend Dr. William Hamilton Jeffers, a Presbyterian minister and scholar of ancient languages and Biblical history, and Annie Robinson Tuttle. His brother was Hamilton Jeffers, a well-known astronomer who worked at L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (; August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalism (literature), naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency (philosophy), agency. Dreiser's best-known novels include ''Sister Carrie'' (1900) and ''An American Tragedy'' (1925). Early life Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, to John Paul Dreiser and Sarah Maria (née Schanab).Finding aid to thTheodore Dreiser papersat thUniversity of Pennsylvania Libraries/ref> John Dreiser was a Germans, German immigrant from Mayen in the Rhine Province of Prussia, and Sarah was from the Mennonite farming community near Dayton, Ohio. Her family disowned her for converting to Catholic Church, Roman Catholicism in order to marry John Dreiser. Theodore was the twelfth of thirteen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – ) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran. His book '' The Devil's Dictionary'' was named one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. His story " An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" has been described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature", and his book '' Tales of Soldiers and Civilians'' (also published as ''In the Midst of Life'') was named by the Grolier Club one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi speculates that he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmel-by-the-Sea
Carmel-by-the-Sea (), commonly known simply as Carmel, is a city in Monterey County, California, located on the Central Coast of California. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 3,220, down from 3,722 at the 2010 census. Situated on the Monterey Peninsula, Carmel is a tourist destination, known for its natural scenery and artistic history. The Spanish founded a settlement in 1797, when Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo was relocated by St. Junípero Serra from Monterey. Mission Carmel served as the headquarters of the Californian mission system, until the Mexican secularization act of 1833, when the area was divided into rancho grants. The settlement was largely abandoned by the U.S. Conquest of California in 1848 and stayed undeveloped until Santiago J. Duckworth set out to build a summer colony in 1888. When the Carmel Development Company was formed in 1902, Carmel became an art colony and seaside resort, which incorporated in 1916. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truth (plays)
''Truth'' and ''Truth: A Grove Play'' are two versions of a verse drama and dramatic verse, verse drama written in blank verse by American poet and playwright George Sterling. Both versions tell a fantasy story set in and near the imaginary medieval walled city of Vae. The first version (written in 1921 and 1922, published 1923) was meant to be read for pleasure. The second version was written in 1925 and early 1926 to be performed. It was published and staged in 1926 with symphonic music composed and conducted by Domenico Brescia. 1926 reviewers praised both Sterling's play and Brescia's musical score. A half-century later, musical scholars said Brescia's ''Truth'' music “represents the high plateau of classical form, structure, and orchestration ... previewing what would become standard film score techniques about a decade later.” A literary historian ranked ''Truth'' as “one of Sterling's finest works.” Synopsis ''Truth'' is set in a fictional medieval walled city name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilith (play)
''Lilith: A Dramatic Poem'' is an acclaimed four-act fantasy verse drama and dramatic verse, verse drama written in blank verse by American poet and playwright George Sterling from 1904 to 1918, and first published in 1919. The ''New York Times'' declared ''Lilith'' “the finest thing in poetic drama yet done in America and one of the finest poetic dramas yet written in English.”Percy A. Hutchison, “Poetic Drama Did Not Die with Stephen Phillips,” ''New York Times Review of Books'' (August 22, 1926), p. 9. Author Theodore Dreiser said of ''Lilith'': “It rings richer in thought than any American dramatic poem with which I am familiar.” Poet Clark Ashton Smith wrote: “''Lilith'' is certainly the best dramatic poem in English since the days of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Swinburne and Robert Browning, Browning. … The lyrics interspersed throughout the drama are as beautiful as any by the Elizabethans.” Influential critic H. L. Mencken said of Sterling: “I think hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Vulture
"The Black Vulture" is a sonnet by American poet George Sterling first printed in March 1910. The poem was cited by Thomas E. Benediktsson in his book ''George Sterling'' as "a sonnet which became Sterling’s most consistently praised and most anthologized poem." Poet and critic William Rose Benét wrote: “As for ‘The Black Vulture,’ I think it is one of the finest sonnets in the language.” The ''New York Times'' said: “No finer sonnet has been written for many a day.” In ''American Literature'', professor Robert G. Berkelman called it “one of Sterling’s most enduring achievements and certainly among the memorable sonnets in our literature.” After the poem’s first book publication in 1911, reprints of “The Black Vulture” in newspapers, magazines, and books have kept it almost continually in print for more than a hundred years. Creation of the poem “The Black Vulture” is a Petrarchan sonnet of fourteen iambic pentameter lines. George Sterling first titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Wine Of Wizardry
"A Wine of Wizardry" is a fantasy-horror poem by George Sterling written in 1903 and 1904. When the poem was first published in ''Cosmopolitan (magazine), Cosmopolitan'' magazine in 1907 with an afterword by Ambrose Bierce it stimulated a nationwide controversy. It was both critically praised and condemned. The poem was reprinted in Sterling's 1908 collection ''A Wine of Wizardry and Other Poems''. It was reprinted again several times, and has been imitated and parodied by many writers, including Sterling himself. The poem inspired Clark Ashton Smith to become a poet and influenced other writers as well. Creation of the poem Throughout 1903 George Sterling commuted six days a week from his Piedmont home, crossing the San Francisco Bay by ferry to his uncle Frank C. Havens, Frank Havens’ San Francisco headquarters to work as a business executive. One December morning Sterling stood outdoors on a ferryboat's deck. He looked down, fascinated by a colorful oil slick on the surface o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Testimony Of The Suns
"The Testimony of the Suns" is a lengthy astronomical poem by American poet and playwright George Sterling that combines elements of science, fantasy, science fiction, and philosophy. Literary historian S. T. Joshi called it Sterling's "longest poem and one of his greatest." Upon the poem's first publication, critic Ambrose Bierce wrote in the ''New York American'': "...its publication is an event of capital importance. Written in French and published in Paris, it would stir the very stones in the streets. ...It is nothing but literature—nothing but the most notable utterance that has been heard in our Western World since the great heart of Edgar Allan Poe, Poe was broken against the adamant of his country's inattention." The unusual poem was too long for magazines and was rejected by book publishers, so in 1903 Sterling self-published it in his first book, ''The Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems''. When his book was released, Sterling's poems had been published in newspaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
