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Summer Of Love: By Joyce Kilmer
Joyce Kilmer
The Baker & Taylor Company, 1911
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Joyce Kilmer was born in New Brunswick, N.J., December 6, 1886, and graduated at Columbia University in 1908. After a short period
of teaching he became associated with Funk and Wagnalls Company,
where he remained from 1909 to 1912, when he assumed the position of literary editor of "The Churchman". In 1913 Mr. Kilmer became a member of the staff of the "New York Times"
Within seventeen days after the entrance of the United States into the war he left his journalistic career to enlist as a Private in the Seventh
Regiment, National Guard, New York. Shortly before the Seventh left New York for Spartanburg, S.C., he was transferred at his own request to the 165th U.S. Infantry, formerly the 69th National Guard Regiment of New York. He accompanied the regiment as a Private to Camp Mills, Long Island. He was transferred from Company H to Headquarters Company, and became Senior Regimental Statistician. The regiment sailed for France in October, 1917, and there he was placed in the Adjutant's Office and made Sergeant. Thereafter he was attached to the Regimental Intelligence Staff as an observer, and showed great fidelity and courage in the tasks to which he was assigned. He was killed in action on July 30, 1918, while trying to locate hostile machine-guns in the Wood of the Burned Bridge, on the Ourcq.
The Mayor of Casterbridge (with an Introduction by Joyce Kilmer)
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Set in the fictional town of Casterbridge, “The Mayor of Casterbridge” is Thomas Hardy’s tragic story of Michael Henchard, who over indulges in alcohol at a country fair and decides to auction off his wife and daughter to a sailor. When he recovers his sobriety, Mr. Henchard realizes his mistake, but it is too late to get his family back. Devastated by his impetuous actions he decides not to touch alcohol again for the next twenty-one years. The novel advances eighteen years to find the tee-totaling Henchard as the Mayor of Casterbridge and a successful grain merchant. When his wife and daughter return to town a precipitous decline in Henchard’s fortune is set in motion. One of Hardy’s Wessex novels, “The Mayor of Casterbridge” is a classic story of the terrible consequences of rash decisions that can be made under the influence of too much alcohol. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper with an introduction by Joyce Kilmer.
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Joyce Kilmer (born as Alfred Joyce Kilmer; December 6, 1886 – July 30, 1918) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Roman Catholic religious faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. While most of his works are largely unknown, a select few of his poems remain popular and are published frequently in anthologies. Several critics—including both Kilmer's contemporaries and modern scholars—have disparaged Kilmer's work as being too simple and overly sentimental, and suggested that his style was far too traditional, even archaic. Many writers, including notably Ogden Nash, have parodied Kilmer's work and style—as attested by the many parodies of "Trees".
At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Roman Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953). He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment (the famous "Fighting 69th") in 1917. He was killed by a sniper's bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. He was married to Aline Murray, also an accomplished poet and author, with whom he had five children.
Joyce Kilmer, Vol. 1: Memoir and Poems (Classic Reprint)
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The Smart Set, Munsey's Magazine and Puck a curiously assorted company, highly expressive of the catholicity of the mind these pages reflect.
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Dreams and Images: An Anthology of Catholic Poets (Classic Reprint)
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This is not a collection of devotional poems. It is not an attempt to rival O'rby Shipley's admirable Carmina Mariana or any other similar anthology. What I have tried to do is to bring together the poems in English that I like best that were written by Cath olics since the middle of the Nineteenth Century. There are in this book poems religious in theme; there are also love-songs and war-songs. But I think that it may be called a book of Catholic poems. For a Catholic is not a Catholic only when he prays; he is a Catholic in all the thoughts and actions of his life. And when a Catholic attempts to reflect in words some of the Beauty of which as a poet he is conscious, he cannot 'be far from prayer and adoration.
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Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American poet, critic, and soldier. During his career, he was a frequent contributor to various periodicals such as New York Times Sunday Magazine, Standard Dictionary, The Literary Digest, Town & Country and The Nation.
Background
Alfred Joyce Kilmer, better known simply as Joyce Kilmer, was born on December 6, 1886 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. He was the son of Frederick Barnett Kilmer, a professional chemist, and Annie (Kilburn) Kilmer. The family ancestry appears to have been predominatingly German and English.
Education
Kilmer attended Rutgers College (1904 - 1906) and later went to Columbia University. He graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1908.
Career
In June 1909 Kilmer started to teach Latin in the high school at Morristown, New Jersey. He then moved to New York City, where he at first found random employment. Soon he joined the staff of the Standard Dictionary (1909 - 1912) and did considerable occasional writing for the magazines. After serving for a year as literary editor of the Churchman, an organ of the Episcopal Church of which he was a member at the time, he secured in 1913 an appointment to the staff of the New York Times Sunday Magazine Section and Review of Books. During the autumn of the same year he entered the Roman Catholic Church and thereafter he took a fervent interest in Catholic literature and affairs. Sometime previously he had moved to Mahwah, New Jersey.
Kilmer began to supplement his work on the Times with various other activities. He conducted poetry departments for the Literary Digest and Current Literature, wrote prefaces to books (among them Hilaire Belloc's Verses, 1916, and Thomas Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge, 1917), and lectured extensively on current letters. Poetry had definitely become his chief concern. Summer of Love (1911) contained verse for the most part derivative in character, showing the influence of Yeats and the Celtic Revival. Trees and Other Poems (1914) constituted a notable advance. During the years preceding, Kilmer had read Coventry Patmore studiously. He seems to have adopted the metrical principles of this poet, adding the best characteristics of American newspaper verse and an inspiration distinctly his own. The title-poem, published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in August 1913, attained worldwide popularity. Main Street and Other Poems (1917) is a mellow book which contains some of Kilmer's most appealing lyrics. His other books are: The Circus, and Other Essays (1916); Literature in the Making (1917), a series of interviews with literary personages; and Dreams and Images (1917), an anthology of modern English and American Catholic poetry.
His attitude to the War, during its earlier stages, is not accurately reflected in "The White Ships and the Red, " a poem written to order for the New York Times on the occasion of the sinking of the Lusitania (1915). But when the United States joined the Allies against Germany, Kilmer entered the Columbia Officers' Training Corps, then enlisted as a private in the 7th Regiment, New York National Guard, and finally transferred to the 165th Regiment. Though his motives in enlisting are possibly difficult to understand, they were in keeping with his character and high sense of honor. In France he transferred to the intelligence department of his regiment, won the rank of sergeant, and wrote poems (notably "Rouge Bouquet") in which something of the French Catholic attitude toward the War is reflected. This verse is sad, but his letters show hardly any trace of diminished enthusiasm. During the final days of July 1918, the 165th attacked the hills above the Ourcq.
On July 30 Kilmer was found dead, an enemy bullet through his brain, some distance from the town of Seringes. He had volunteered to assist Colonel W. J. Donovan in place of Lieutenant Oliver Ames, who had just been killed. His bravery was rewarded by burial with the officers at a spot near which he fell, by mention in the official dispatches, and by the Croix de Guerre (posthumous). In one of his last letters he wrote: "You will find me less a bookman when you see me next, and more, I hope, a man. "
At any rate he became for Americans less a writer than a symbol of soldierly courage and poetic idealism. At the time of his death he was writing a historical account of the 165th Regiment which Francis P. Duffy appended to Father Duffy's Story (1919). Kilmer's selected works and letters were published by Robert C. Holliday in a volume entitled Joyce Kilmer: Poems, Essays and Letters (1918).
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Personality
As a critic Kilmer was bright, never pedantic, but sometimes swayed a little by enthusiasms. He was described as a man "stockily built, " of medium height and reddish-brown hair, whose eyes gave the impression that the "brain behind them was working intensely and perhaps even feverishly, " and whose person reflected the dignity of a sensitive spirit conscious of having become, in a measure, a man of the world.
Connections
In June 1908 Kilmer married Aline Murray, stepdaughter of Henry Mills Alden. He had four children, and another was born just before he sailed for France.