Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968

American poet.

Poet. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1881; graduated from Harvard University. Began writing poetry full-time in 1908. Moved to Santa Fe where he died in 1968.

American poet and scholar.

Harvard-educated poet, author of more than twenty-five books, and resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, for forty-six years. Bynner was a central figure in the arts communities of Santa Fe and Taos.

Witter Bynner was an American poet, known as much for his tireless support of poets and poetry in America as for his own verse. Born in Brooklyn and raised in New York and New England, he graduated from Harvard and worked briefly for McClure's before turning his attention to writing full-time. He published several books of poetry, and earned notoriety for the Spectra Hoax, perpetrated to lampoon the contemporary emphasis on poetry schools at the expense of poems. During his travels through the Orient, Bynner became influenced by Chinese and Japanese poetry, and he produced a number of important translations into English, notably of works by Kiang Kang-hu. He continued to write his own verse, admired by fellow poets; he also worked as an editor, advocated numerous social causes, and wrote a memoir of his travels with his friend, D.H. Lawrence.

Bynner was an American poet and translator.

Santa Fe, New Mexico, poet.

Author, editor, and poet.

Harold Witter Bynner was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1881, but at age 7 his family moved to Brookline, MA. In 1898 he began his studies at Harvard University where he served on the editorial board of the HARVARD ADVOCATE (1900-1902). After graduating in 1902, Bynner worked for four years as associate editor of MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE before retreating from the pressures of the New York literary world and devoting himself to writing. His first book, AN ODE TO HARVARD AND OTHER POEMS (1907), was written while he lived in Cornish, N.H. It was only mildly successful, but he went on to publish several plays and seventeen other volumes of poetry. He is perhaps best remembered for the SPECTRA HOAX (1916), a spoof on literary "schools." Bynner was elected President of the Poetry Society of America (1921-1923) and traveled extensively in the Orient, where he became influenced by Chinese poetry. In fact, THE JADE MOUNTAIN, an anthology of T'ang Dynasty poems, is considered Bynner's "greatest contribution to twentieth-century literature." He died in 1968.

Bynner was an American poet and translator. Chauvenet was Bynner's secretary.

Witter Bynner (1881-1968), poet, editor, and translator of French and Chinese poetry.

Bynner was an American author.

Witter Bynner (1881-1968) graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude in 1902, and in 1907, was the Phi Beta Kappa poet for "Young Harvard." He continued publishing until the release of "New Poems, 1960." He was a lively part of the social and cultural life of Santa Fe, New Mexico, until his health failed in the mid-1960's. He passed away in 1968.

American writer and editor.

Harold Witter Bynner (1881-1968) was an American poet, writer and scholar. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was widely traveled and spent most of his life in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The home he shared there with long-time partner Robert Hunt became a gathering place for the creative and artistic elite; among their friends and guests were Clara Bow, D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Oppenheimer, Georgia O'Keef and many other notable names. The house today is a bed and breakfast called The Inn of the Turquoise Bear.

Harold Witter Bynner (1881-1968), an American poet, writer, and scholar, graduated from Harvard in 1902 and pursued a career in jounalism before becoming a writer. He lived for many years in Santa Fe, N.M., where he knew D.H. Lawrence and Mabel Dodge Luhan. Bynner's circle included some of the most prominent writers, artists, and personalities of the day, including Willa Cather, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Arthur Davison Ficke, Rose O'Neill, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

Witter Bynner, poet, was born August 10, 1888 in Brooklyn, N.Y. He graduated from Harvard University in 1902 then worked for McClure's Magazine as an assistant editor. Byner quit regular employment and began writing poetry full-time in 1908. After an extensive tour of the Orient, he moved to Santa Fe, N.M., where he continued to write poetry. Bynner died in Santa Fe in 1968.

American poet, editor, lecturer, and translator Witter Bynner became widely known through a literary hoax, a parody of free verse titled Spectra , which he created with Arthur Ficke. Bynner was literary editor and assistant editor for McClure's Magazine from 1902-1906 and later was a lecturer on poetry throughout the United States. His work, The Jade Mountain , was the first complete volume of Chinese poetry to be translated by an American.

Witter Bynner was born August 10, 1881, in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on June 1, 1968.

Helen Bramble was an editor at The Forum magazine.

"Witter Bynner." Contemporary Authors Online (reproduced in Biography Resource Center). http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (accessed July 2010). Biographical note about Helen Bramble derived from the letter.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

George Sterling was born in Sag Harbor, N.Y. on December 1, 1869. He was educated on the East Coast and attended St. Charles College in Maryland. In 1896 he married Carrie Rand of Oakland, California, and from 1898 to 1908 he was private secretary to Frank C. Havens of that city.

Sterling's first volume of poems, “ Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems, was published in 1903. After that time, there were nine other volumes and a number of separate poems published. From 1908 to 1915, Sterling was one of the leaders of the artist colony at Carmel, California. He died on November 18, 1926, by his own hands.