Arlo Bates was an American

United States

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 author, educator and newspaperman.

Biography

Arlo Bates was born at East Machias

East Machias, Maine

East Machias is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States on the East Machias River. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 1,298.-Geography:...

, Maine

Maine

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. He graduated from Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College

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 in 1876. In 1880 Bates became the editor of the Boston Sunday Courier (1880–1893) and afterward became professor

Professor

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 of English

English language

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 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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 in 1900.

List of works

Novels:

• The Pagan
  Paganism
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  s (1884)
• The Wheel of Fire (1885)
• The Philistines
  Philistines
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  (1888)
• The Puritan
  Puritan
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  s (1899)
• 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)

Collected Stories:

• The Intoxicated Ghost
  Ghost
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  (1908)

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

Edwin Percy Whipple

Edwin Percy Whipple was an American essayist and critic.-Biography:He was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1819. For a time, he was the main literary critic for Philadelphia-based Graham's Magazine. Later, in 1848, he became the Boston correspondent to The Literary World under Evert Augustus...

 Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

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.

External links

• Arlo Bates papers at Bowdoin College
  Bowdoin College
  Bowdoin College , founded in 1794, is an elite private liberal arts college located in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick, Maine. As of 2011, U.S. News and World Report ranks Bowdoin 6th among liberal arts colleges in the United States. At times, it was ranked as high as 4th in the country. It is...