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Poems. After a lapse of ten years, there fore, the publishers present a third and final volume, in which they have endeav ored to gather from print and manuscript such verses as may satisfy a demand cre ated by reading an author who gave freely, but after all would have set light store upon many of his gifts. Thus the three volumes really contain a selection rather than a collection of Mr. Sill's poetical writings.
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Edward Rowland Sill was an American poet and educator.
Background
Edward Rowland Sill was born at Windsor, Connecticut, the son of Theodore and Elizabeth Newberry (Rowland) Sill. On his mother's side he was descended from a line of New England clergymen, one of whom, the Rev. David Sherman Rowland, as pastor in Providence, Rhode Island, had taken an active part in the Revolution; and on his father's from John Sill, who emigrated from England to Cambridge, Massachussets, about 1637. Theodore Sill, like his father before him, was a physician widely beloved in the little community. After the death of his older son in 1847 and of his wife in 1852, he removed to Cleveland with his one child, and there, not long after opening an office, he too died in 1853. The boy now went to live with his uncle, Elisha Noyes Sill, at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
Education
After a year at Phillips Exeter Academy and one at the preparatory school of Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio, he entered Yale in the fall of 1857, to graduate four years later with the class of 1861, in spite of the fact that at the end of his freshman year he was removed from college for neglecting his studies and was away for over a year.
It was an hour of ebbing tides in the intellectual history of Yale, and he appears to have rebelled against the uninspired routine of college discipline; his poverty, however, and his native fastidiousness together imposed strict limitations on his protestantism, and he was remembered by his college contemporaries chiefly for his fine seriousness and brilliant literary promise. In his senior year he was on the editorial board of the Yale Literary Magazine, and the class poem he read at Commencement was long famous as one of the finest in Yale history.
Career
On leaving college he was led, partly by the delicacy of his health, to make a sea voyage round the Horn to California. It was scarcely a nourishing atmosphere for a young poet of his type. The career of letters, if he had ever envisaged it practically, soon receded into the far distance, and, with characteristic plainness and freedom from self-pity, he turned his hand to such tasks as offered themselves.
For some time he acted as clerk in the post-office at Sacramento; later he worked in a bank at Folsom. All the while he was casting about restlessly for a permanent profession. After fruitless attempts at reading law and then medicine he returned to the East in 1866, revisited Cuyahoga Falls for a few months, and in 1867 spent the early part of the year as a student at the Harvard Divinity School.
It was the last of his experiments to give negative results. "Emerson could not preach, " he wrote to his classmate, Henry Holt, in August 1867, "and I now understand why. " Strong as the hereditary bias was and constant as his own preoccupation was with essentially religious speculations, he could not ally himself with the institutionalized Protestantism of nineteenth-century America. "On religion, " he wrote many years later to a young correspondent, "I doubt your ever agreeing with me that the church is a great fraud and nuisance. I am convinced it is doing infinitely more harm than good, every day and week. "
He now spent several rather obscure months in New York making trial of journalism on the New York Evening Mail; and in the spring of 1868 he published The Hermitage and Other Poems, the one volume of his verse to appear publicly in his lifetime, and Mozart, a Biographical Romance, a translation from the German of Heribert Rau.
He soon abandoned so unpredictable a calling, no doubt partly for economic reasons. Moreover, the desire to play a useful rôle in society was as strong in him as the desire to express himself in ideal form. He now returned to an old purpose, that of becoming a teacher. After three years of apprenticeship in Ohio, during the latter two years of which he was superintendent of schools at Cuyahoga Falls, he taught the classics and English at the high school in Oakland, California, 1871-74.
From 1874 to 1882 he held the chair of English at the University of California, having been invited there by Daniel Coit Gilman.
The administrations that followed upon Gilman's were far from being so sympathetic to the humanities as his had been; the pressure from outside toward emphasis on technology and vocationalism was organized and truculent; and Sill was not happy during his last two or three years at Berkeley. Partly on this account, partly for family reasons, he resigned from his chair in March 1882, and the following year, after issuing privately a small volume of poems, The Venus of Milo and Other Poems (1883), he returned to his father-in-law's home in Cuyahoga Falls.
He now contributed frequent anonymous essays to the Atlantic Monthly, as well as poems to it and other magazines, often under the pseudonym of Andrew Hedbrooke, but his last years were troubled by intellectual isolation, by private anxieties, and by ill-health.
He died prematurely, following a minor operation, in a hospital in Cleveland.
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Personality
Not that he substituted "inspiration" for less beguiling appeals: he is said to have been methodical even to austerity and exacting enough to antagonize the faint-hearted. But his personal distinction was so great and his high-mindedness so easily borne that only the dullest could resist his influence. Part of his impressiveness depended, superficially, on his striking appearance.
Tall and very slender, he carried himself with an easy elegance; the pure and delicately cut outline of his features, the grave beauty of his dark blue-gray eyes, which everyone spoke of as they spoke of Hawthorne's, the rich flexibility of his voice, the expressive responsiveness of his whole manner were outward facts that seemed in harmony with his essential spirit.
Connections
In 1867 he had married his cousin, Elizabeth Newberry Sill, daughter of Elisha Noyes Sill.