Richard Hovey

Infobox Writer
name = Richard Hovey

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caption = Richard Hovey, from the frontispiece of "To the End of the Trail" (1908).
birthdate = birth date|1864|5|4|mf=y
birthplace = Normal, Illinois
deathdate = death date and age|1900|2|24|1864|5|4|mf=y
deathplace = New York, New York
occupation = poet, playwright, translator
nationality = United States
period = 1880 - 1900
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notableworks = "Songs from Vagabondia"
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Richard Hovey (1864-1900) was an American poet. Graduating from Dartmouth College in 1885, he is known in part for penning the school Alma Mater, "Men of Dartmouth".

Biography

Hovey was born in Normal, Illinois, the son of Major General Charles Edward Hovey and Harriet Spofford Hovey. He grew up in North Amherst, Massachusetts, and in Washington, D.C., before attending Dartmouth. His first volume of poems was privately published in 1880.

He collaborated with Canadian poet Bliss Carman on three volumes of "tramp" verse: "Songs from Vagabondia" (1894), "More Songs from Vagabondia" (1896), and "Last Songs from Vagabondia" (1900), the last being published after Hovey's death.

He died after undergoing minor abdominal surgery in 1900. [Meyer, Bruce. "Richard Hovey". In Haralson, Eric L. (ed.) (1998), "Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century", p. 217. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. ISBN 1579580084.]

elected poems

* SeaGypsy
* When We Are Dead
* John Keats
* To a Friend
* Philosophy
* The Old Pine
* In Memoriam
* Squab Flights
* Kronos
* College Days
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti
* The South

References

External links

* [http://www.bartleby.com/227/0311.html The Cambridge History of English and American Literature]
* [http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Biographies/richard_hovey.htm Biography of Richard Hovey]
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* [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ACA7821.0001.001 Dartmouth Lyrics by Richard Hovey] at Making Of America Books
* [http://www.sonnets.org/hovey.htm Poems of Richard Hovey]