Background
Braithwaite, William Stanley Beaumont was born on December 6, 1878 in Boston. Son of William Smith and Emma (De Wolfe) Braithwaite.
Braithwaite, William Stanley Beaumont was born on December 6, 1878 in Boston. Son of William Smith and Emma (De Wolfe) Braithwaite.
Honorary Master of Arts, Atlanta U., 1918. Doctor of Letters, Talladega College, 1918.
Member Poetry Society American, New England Poetry Society.
Author: Lyrics of Life and Love, 1904. The House of Falling Leaves, 1908. The Poetic Year for 1916.
The Story of the Great War, 1919. Selected Poems, 1948. The Brontes in Life And Literature, 1949.
Was editor or compiler: The Book of Elizabethan Verse, 1906. The Book of Georgian Verse, 1908. The Book of Restoration Verse, 1909.
Anthology of Magazine Verse and Year Book of American Poetry (17 vols.), 1913-1929. Golden Treasury of Magazine Verse, 1918. The Book of Modern British Verse, 1919.
Victory! Celebrated by 38 American Poets, with an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt, 1919. Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. Our Lady’s Choir, a Contemporary Anthology of Verse by Catholic Sisters, 1931.
The House Under Arcturus: An Autobiography, 1941. Contributor to newspapers and mags. Professor literature Atlanta U.
Retired, 1945.
Member Poetry Society American, New England Poetry Society.
Married Emma Kelly, June 30, 1903. Children: Fiona Lydia Rossetti (Mistress.