Arlo Bates

Arlo Bates (December 16, 1850August 25, 1918) was an American author, educator and newspaperman.Infobox Person
name = Arlo Bates


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birth_date = December 16, 1850
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death_date = August 25, 1918 [Citation |New York Times| year = 1918 |title = Arlo Bates Dies- Author of Many Books and Teacher at Institute of Technology | page = 11. | publisher = The New York Times | location = New York, NY | date = August 26, 1918]
death_place = Boston, Massachusetts] [Citation |New York Times| year = 1918 |title = Arlo Bates Dies- Author of Many Books and Teacher at Institute of Technology | page = 11. | publisher = The New York Times | location = New York, NY | date = August 26, 1918]
alma_mater = Bowdoin College
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spouse = Harriet L. Vose (d. 1886) [Citation |New York Times| year = 1918 |title = Arlo Bates Dies- Author of Many Books and Teacher at Institute of Technology | page = 11. | publisher = The New York Times | location = New York, NY | date = August 26, 1918]

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Biography

Arlo Bates was born at East Machias, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876. In 1880 Bates became the editor of the Boston "Sunday Courier" (18801893) and afterward became professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

List of works

Novels:
* "The Pagans" (1884) [Gutenberg|no=8671|name=The Pagans]
* "The Wheel of Fire" (1885)
* "The Philistines" (1888) [Gutenberg|no=8570|name=The Philistines]
* "The Puritans" (1899) [Gutenberg|no=8522|name=The Puritans]
* "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)
*"The Intoxicated Ghost" (1908)

In 1912 he wrote an introduction to E. P. Whipple's "Charles Dickens".

References

External links

* [http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/abg.shtml Arlo Bates papers] at Bowdoin College
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