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Joyce Kilmer

(Kilmer, Joyce, 1886-1918)

1908 Columbia University yearbook photo.of poet Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
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Alfred Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886 – July 30, 1918) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953). He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment (the famous "Fighting 69th") in 1917. He was killed by a sniper's bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. He was married to Aline Murray, also an accomplished poet and author, with whom he had five children. (From Wikipedia)

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  • [Info] Kilmer, Joyce, 1886-1918: Main Street, and Other Poems (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1917)
  • [Info] Kilmer, Joyce, 1886-1918, contrib.: Modern Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., c1921), ed. by Christopher Morley, also contrib. by John Albert Macy, William Allen White, Rupert Brooke, Don Marquis, David W. Bone, William McFee, Joseph Conrad, A. P. Herbert, Oscar W. Firkins, Hilaire Belloc, William Osler, Stephen Leacock, Harry Morgan Ayres, Thomas Burke, A. A. Milne, Max Beerbohm, Stuart Pratt Sherman, H. M. Tomlinson, Louise Imogen Guiney, Marian Storm, George Santayana, Simeon Strunsky, George Saintsbury, Bertrand Russell, Philip Guedalla, Robert Palfrey Utter, Logan Pearsall Smith, James Branch Cabell, Robert Cortes Holliday, Harry Esty Dounce, and Robert Cortes Holliday
  • [Info] Kilmer, Joyce, 1886-1918: Trees and Other Poems (Gutenberg text)
  • [Info] Kilmer, Joyce, 1886-1918, contrib.: Verses (New York: L. J. Gomme, 1916), by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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