Arlo Bates (December 16, 1850 – August 25, 1918) was an American author, educator and newspaperman.

Biography

Arlo Bates was born at East Machias,

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, on December 16, 1850. He graduated from

Bowdoin College Bowdoin College ( ) is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. It was chartered in 1794. The main Bowdoin campus is located near Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River. In a ...

in 1876. In 1880 Bates became the editor of the

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'' Sunday Courier'' (1880–1893) and afterward became

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of English at the

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. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1900. He died on August 25, 1918.

List of works

Novels: *''The Pagans'' (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'' (1908) In 1912 he wrote an introduction to E. P. Whipple's ''

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''.

References

External links

Arlo Bates papers
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