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Born in North Brookfield, Massachusetts on February 11, 1868, he was the son of Minot Judson Savage, a well-known Unitarian minister, and Ella A. Dodge.
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Excerpt from First Poems Fragments Apology Be more concrete, immediate to man! So did he counsel me, the sage; and I, Taking for naught the gentle guidances Of nature, who in all my life before Had lived unconscious, leaving much to her, I cast her out; so I forgot the sky And turned my eyes into the heart of man. But poetry is a swift, unconscious growth, Springs native where it may, and ever lives The child of impulse unaware and wild; And passion many times must rise and fall And much of life be lived before the word Spring up to utterance and demand a birth. So was I barren many days and so I doubted him, the sage and moralist; Therefore at last I claimed again the days When I was not so much and nature more, When beauty rose, if beauty it were, and clothed A happy impulse or a strong desire In forms and colors native to the time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Born in North Brookfield, Massachusetts on February 11, 1868, he was the son of Minot Judson Savage, a well-known Unitarian minister, and Ella A. Dodge.
He graduated from the English High School of Boston in 1885. He graduated there in 1893, and was conferred the degree of Master of Arts in 1896.
The family moved several times during his early life: to Framingham, then to Chicago and finally to Boston in 1874. He worked at the leather and shoe company Bachfelder and Lincoln, spending "a number of years drumming boots and shoes in the northeastern states" before he began attending Harvard in 1889 at age 21. During his time there, he edited the Harvard Monthly for three years, as well as editing a bi-weekly literary periodical, The Mahogany Tree, which was published out of Boston.
After spending a year (1893-1894) at the Harvard Divinity School, he became an English instructor in Harvard"s English department, and was able to publish his first volume of poems, First Poems and Fragments, in 1895.
Refusing a position as an English instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he began work at the Boston Public Library as Secretary to the Librarian (who was, at the time, Herbert Putnam), becoming a Clerk of the Corporation in 1899. On May 31, 1899, he was stricken with appendicitis, and after a weeklong illness, he died on June 4 at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Savage is often linked with a group known as the Harvard poets (or the Harvard Pessimists), many of whom died young (such as Trumbull Stickney, George Cabot Lodge, Thomas Parker Sanborn, and Hugh McCulloch).
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