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Biography
The early years: 18861908
Kilmer was born December 6, 1886 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the fourth and final son [a] Annie Ellen Kilburn (18491932) and Dr. Frederick Barnett Kilmer (18511934), physician and chemist employed by Johnson & Johnson company and the inventor of the company's baby powder. Joyce was named after Alfred Joyce Kilmer Alfred R. Taylor, the priest, the Rev. Dr. Elisha Brooks Joyce (18571926), the rector of the Church of Christ oldest Episcopal parish in New Brunswick, where the Kilmer family parishioners. Joyce Rector, who served the parish from 1883-1916, called the young Kilmer. place Kilmer born in New Brunswick, where the Kilmer family lived from 1886 to 1892, still stands, and houses a small museum with Kilmer, and some government offices Middlesex County.
Kilmer joined the Rutgers College Grammar School (now Rutgers Preparatory School) in 1895 at the age of 8. During his years at the Grammar School, he ....
"... Lane won the prize in public speaking and was editor in chief of the Argo, the school newspaper. He loved the classics, although there were many difficulties with the Greek. In his senior year at Rutgers, won first prize classic track, a free scholarship for the academic year at the University of Rutgers, and hundred dollars in money. Despite their difficulties with mathematics and Greek, became the head of his class in high school. "
After graduating Rutgers University Grammar School in 1904, continued his education at Rutgers College from 1904 to 1906. At Rutgers, Kilmer was associate editor of the Targum, the newspaper campus and a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity. Unable to complete the mathematics requirement in the rigorous curriculum at Rutgers, facing a repeat of his second years and under pressure from his mother, Kilmer transferred to Columbia College of Columbia University in New York.
In Columbia, Kilmer was vice-president of the Society Philolexian, associate editor of Columbia Spectator, the campus newspaper and was a member of the Debating Union. He completed his Bachelor of Arts (AB) degree and graduated from Columbia May 23, 1908. Shortly after his graduation in June 9, 1908, he married Aline Murray (18,881,941), another poet who had been engaged in its second year at Rutgers. The Kilmers had five children: Kenton Kilmer Sinclair (19091995), Kilmer, Michael Barry (19161927), Deborah (Sister Michael) Clanton Kilmer (19,141,999) who was a Catholic nun at the Monastery of San Benito, Rose Kilburn Kilmer (19121917), and Christopher Kilmer (19,171,984).
Years of writing and faith: 19091917
Shortly after his marriage and graduation from Columbia, Kilmer sought teaching positions. By the autumn of 1908, obtained a position teaching Latin Morristown High School in Morristown, New Jersey, and find that education does not demand much of his time, found a considerable time to devote to writing. At this time, the submission of essays for the Red Cross notes (including his first published work, an essay on "Psychology of Advertising") and poems to states mood, Smart Set, The Sun, The Pathfinder and hit the area. Besides all this, wrote book reviews for The Literary Digest, Town & Country, The Nation and The New York Times. In June 1909, Kilmer had abandoned any aspirations to continue teaching and moved to New York, the literary and publishing mecca of the States United, the decision to focus solely on a career as a writer.
From 19091912, Kilmer was employed by Funk and Wagnalls, who was preparing an edition of The Dictionary Standard. According to Hillis,
"Work] [Kilmer was to define ordinary words assigned to the five cents per word defined. This was a job normally win a ten-twelve dollars a week, but the task Kilmer attacked with such vigor and speed than was thought shortly wiser than he was a regular salary. "
Shortly after the publication of The Standard Dictionary in 1912, Kilmer became a writer for the New York Times Book Review and the Sunday New York Times Magazine and often engaged in conferences. Kilmer and his family moved to Mahwah, New Jersey, where he lived until his service and death in World War I. In Kilmer time was established as a published poet and a popular lecturer. According to Robert Holliday, Kilmer "often neglected to do any preparation for his speeches, even choosing an issue to the beginning of the meal that was to culminate in a sample of his oratory. His constant search for the dictionary, and later Articles by The New York Times, should have given him a store of knowledge at their fingertips to be produced at any time to these emergencies. "
Joyce Kilmer circa 19101915
In 1911, Kilmer's first book of poems, titled Summer of Love was published. Kilmer wrote later that "... some of the poems in it, inspired by true love, are not things to be ashamed, and you, understanding will not be offended by others. "
The daughter of Kilmers' Rose (19121917) was attacked by polio (also known as infantile paralysis) shortly after birth. The Kilmers returned to his religious faith, and the correspondence between Joyce Kilmer and Father James J. Daly, Joyce and Aline began converting to Catholicism which were received in 1913. In one of these letters, Kilmer writes:
"For Of course I understand my conversion. I'm beginning to understand. I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic Church view of ethics and aesthetics, even time. But I wanted something not intellectual, not a mental conviction - in fact I wanted to faith.
"Next to the Broadway, in the way of the Hudson Station metro construction times, there is a church called the Church of the Holy Innocents. Since it is in the heart of the tenderloin, this name is strangely appropriate - Not absolutely need of youth and innocence. Well, every morning for months I stopped on my way to the office and prayed in this Church of the faith. When Faith arrived arrived, I think, through my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands led me, I think her tiny feet know beautiful paths. You understand this and give me pleasure selfish writing. "
The year 1913 came to Kilmer in the trials of suffering and faith, but also success. With the publication of "The trees "in the magazine Poetry, Kilmer gained popularity as a poet in the United States. At that time its popularity and success as a teacher, particularly one that looking to reach a Catholic public, led to Robert Holliday to write: "It's not unsupported assertion to say it was at the time and place of the Catholic Church Nobel. "Trees and Other Poems (1914) was published the following year. In the following years saw a tremendous amount of work with Kilmer continues his lectures, his literary criticism and essays, poetry, and find the time in 1915 to become poetry editor of the current literature and contributing editor of the Warner Library People's Best Literature. After the publication of The Circus and Other Essays in 1916, the following year would see the publication of three books, literature in the manufacture, Main Street and Other Poems, and dreams and images: an anthology of Catholic poets.
Years of war: 19171918
A few days after the United States declared war on Germany and entered the First World War in April 1917, Kilmer enlisted in the Seventh Regiment National Guard of New York. In August, Kilmer was initially assigned as a statistician with the U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment (better known as the Fighting 69th "and later redesignated 165th Infantry Regiment) of the 42nd "Rainbow" Division and quickly rose to the rank of sergeant. Although he was eligible for the commission as an officer and is often recommended for these posts during the course of the war, Kilmer refused saying he would rather be a sergeant in the 69th fight is not official in any another regiment.
In September, before Kilmer was deployed, the Kilmer family is mixed with emotions against the tragedy and joy. Kilmer's daughter Rose had dead and twelve days later, his son Christopher birth. Kilmer sailed to Europe with his regiment, 31 October 1917, arriving in France two weeks later. Before his departure, Kilmer had contracted with publishers to write a book about the war, deciding on the title here and there with the fight against sixty-nine. Kilmer wrote home, saying "I have not written anything in prose and verse since I got here - except the statistics - but I saved a lot of memories that become copy when I have the opportunity. "Unfortunately, Kilmer was never write a book. During his stay in Europe, Kilmer did write prose and drawings poetry, especially the poem "Rouge Bouquet", which was written after the First Battalion of the 42nd Division, which had occupied the Khmer Bouquet forest northeast of the French village of Baccarat, which at that time was a quiet sector of the fronto beaten by a heavy artillery bombardment on the afternoon of March 12, 1918, that buried 21 men of the unit, of which 14 were buried.
Kilmer looked more dangerous duty and was transferred to the Intelligence Section of the regiment, in April 1918. He wrote to his wife, Aline that, "I'm doing a job I love - and the work can be proud of. None of the soldiers of the monotony but a double portion of joy and emotion. "According to Hillis:
"Friends Kilmer wrote:" He was adored by the men around him. I've heard with awe of his coolness and nerve in scouting patrols in no man's land. This coldness and his habit of choosing, with the enthusiasm typical, more dangerous and difficult mission, led to the death. "
During the Second Battle of Marne, there was heavy fighting during the last days of July 1918, and July 30, 1918, offered to accompany Kilmer Major William "Wild Bill" Donovan when Donovan's First Battalion was sent to lead the attack of the day.
Death and burial
During the day, Kilmer led a scouting party to find a German machine gun position. When his comrades found him, some time later, initially thought he was looking over the edge of a small hill, where he had crawled to see better. By not responding to his call, ran towards him and found him dead. According to Father Duffy: the bullet had pierced his brain. His body was taken and buried by the side of Ames. God rest his dear and brave soul.30] Kilmer died, probably immediately, from a sniper's bullet in the head near Muercy Farm Oureq the river near the town of Seringe, in France, July 30, 1918 at the age of 31. For its value, Kilmer was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre (Cross of War) of the French Republic.
Kilmer was buried in the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, near Fere-en-Tardenois, Aisne, Picardie, France. Although Kilmer is buried in France in an American military cemetery, a cenotaph is in the Kilmer family plot in Elmwood Cemetery in New Brunswick, New Jersey. A memorial service was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan.
"Trees"
Though a prolific poet, Joyce Kilmer is known for his poem, "Trees" collection published in 1914, trees and other poems (see 1914 in poetry), after that first appeared in the Poetry magazine in August 1913. Kilmer wrote "Trees" on February 2, 1913, at his home in Mahwah, New Jersey. The poem was dedicated to Mrs. Henry Mills Alden (Alden Ada Foster Murray), the mother of his wife and a poet in his own right. Other sources indicate it was written in Chicago, are unsubstantiated. "The Trees "has been given several musical options that were very popular in the 1940s and 1950s, the most popular written by Oscar Rasbach in 1922, with deliveries by Ernestine Schumann-Heink, John Charles Thomas, Nelson Eddy, Robert Merrill and Paul Robeson.
The text below is the original written by Kilmer.
Think we'll never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is provided
Against sweet bosom of the earth flowing;
A tree that looks at God all day
And leafy arms up to pray;
A tree that can be used in summer
A nest of robins in her hair;
In whose bosom snow has lain;
"Who lives intimately with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me
But only God can make a tree.
There have been some variations on the text, including texts parody replaced to mimic many seemingly simple Kilmer rhyme and meter, poem, and questioning the choice of metaphors. Of the parodies frequently, one of the best known is "Song of the Open Road" by Ogden Nash (19021971):
I think we'll never see
A beautiful fence like a tree.
In fact, unless the billboards fall,
You'll never see a tree at all.
In the short Our Gang "Arbor Day", Alfalfa, after the cue in a lumberjack-spare-the-tree exchange with Spanky, sings "Trees", as Leonard Maltin called "delivery Worst of all time-the poem, "with its shrill, strained.
In his album Caught in the Act, Victor Borge, at a time when requests for game says: "Sorry, I do not know that" doggie in the window. " I know that comes close to it. "Then he began playing the" trees. "
"Trees" was popularized in 1948 by the eponymous segment Melody time an animated film produced by Walt Disney and the film Superman II 1980, which was filmed by two different directors, Richard Donner Richard Lester in 1977 and 1979. Donner's original version, released in late 2006, has Marlon Brando reading Kilmer poem. These scenes were filmed in April 1977. Lester was instrumental reprise unknown British actor of Brando in July 1979, which is that the actor in the original 1980 theatrical release.
Inspiration
According to Kilmer's son, Kenton, the poemhich not inspired by any specific tree, but about trees in general written "... in an upstairs bedroom ... who served as Mother and Dad's bedroom and also as Dad's office .... The window overlooked a hill, well wooded in our lawn - trees of many kinds, from mature trees to thin saplings: oaks, maples, birch and white black, and who knows what else. "However, a 1915 interview with Kilmer" pointed out that while Kilmer might be widely known for his love by trees, his affection is certainly not sentimental - the most distinguished feature of Kilmer's property was a colossal woodpile outside his home. The house stood in the middle of a forest and grass that had been obtained only after Kilmer had spent months of weekend work in deforestation, uprooting stumps, logs and splitting. Kilmer's neighbors had difficulty believing that a man who could do that could also be a poet. "
Many places throughout the United States remain legends that certain trees in their localities Kilmer inspired to write the poem. Most noted among them is the tradition in Kilmer hometown, New Brunswick, New Jersey, which states that Kilmer wrote the poem "Trees" after a large white oak (Quercus alba) tree was located on the outskirts of the city on the campus of Cook College (now known as the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences) at Rutgers University. This tree, which it is estimated that over three hundred years, was so weakened by age and disease had to be withdrawn in 1963. At present, saplings of trees acorns history are being grown in place, the whole area of Middlesex County, and major botanical gardens around the United States. The remains of the original Kilmer Oak are currently kept in storage at the Rutgers University.
Guy Davenport suggests a very different inspiration. "The trees were symbols Favorite Yeats, Frost, and even the young Pound. [. . . ] But Kilmer had been reading about trees in another context [,] the movement to end child labor and establish schools for children in poor neighborhoods. [. . . ] Margaret McMillan. . . had the happy idea that a breath of fresh air and an intimate knowledge of the grass and trees are worth all the pencils and desks throughout the school system. [. . . ] The English word for gym equipment is 'appliances'. And in his book Working and Children (1907) is this sentence: "Devices can be made by fools, but only God can make a tree. "
Scanning and analysis
His poem "Trees" has twelve lines of eight syllables in iambic tetrameter strict. rhyme scheme of the poem is couplets rendered ee aa bb cc aa dd.
Despite its deceptive simplicity in rhyme and meter, the "trees" is notable for its use of personification and anthropomorphic imagery: The tree of the poem, representing Kilmer and female, is represented as pressing the mouth to the chest of the Earth, looking at God, and the increase in its "road weapons" pray. The human tree poem also has the physical attributes that her mouth is "hungry", arms, hair (in which Robins nest), and a chest.
Criticism and influence
reputation as a poet Joyce Kilmer played largely on the popularity of one poem, namely, "Trees." His death he retired early opportunity to become a more mature poet. Because "the trees" is often dismissed by critics and modern scholars as a single verse, much of the work Kilmer, especially his literary criticism, has slipped into the darkness. Only a few of his poems have appeared in anthologies, and with the exception of "trees" and in a much lesser degree "Rouge Bouquet", almost none has achieved lasting popularity.
The full corpus Kilmer's work appears in the early years of the modernist movement, especially before the influence of the Lost Generation. In the years after the death of Kilmer, was poetry in new directions, as can be seen in the work of TS Eliot (18881965) and Ezra Pound. The year that Kilmer was writing, and conservatism and style used traditional, were the last romantics of the time. Kilmer poetry is often criticized for failing to break free from traditional modes, rhyme and meter, or themes, and for being too sentimental to be taken seriously.
Kilmer early works were inspired by, and were intended to imitate the poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Ernest Dowson, Aubrey Beardsley and William Butler Yeats. Later it was through the influence of works of Coventry Patmore, Francis Thompson, and Alice Meynell and her children Viola Meynell and Meynell Francisco, Kilmer seems to have been interested in Catholicism. Kilmer wrote about his influences:
"I have come to regard with intense admiration. Patmore seems to be a major poet Francis Thompson. It has a rich vocabulary, scholarship decor, the enthusiasm of Shelley, that distinguish the "Sister Songs" and "Hound of Heaven", but he has a classical simplicity, a restraint and sincerity which make his poems satisfactory. "
Because that was initially raised Episcopalian (or Anglican), Kilmer became literary editor of the Anglican weekly, The Churchman, before his conversion to Catholicism. During this time made important research 16th and 17th century poets of England, as well as metaphysical or mystical poets of the era, including George Herbert, Thomas Traherne, Robert Herrick, Bishop Coxe, and Robert Stephen Hawker, vicar of Morwenstow, the latter whom he referred to as "a coast guard life cassock." These poets also had an influence on the writings of Kilmer.
Critics compared Kilmer British Catholic writers Hilaire Belloc and GK Chesterton, which suggests that his reputation might have risen to the level that had been considered his U.S. counterpart if not for his untimely death.
Honors and Awards
Dedication plaque at the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest.
Several municipalities in the United States have named parks, schools, streets and squares in honor of Joyce Kilmer, including his hometown of New Brunswick, New Jersey, whose name Codwise Avenue, the street where he was born, "Joyce Kilmer Avenue. In 2007, the city also hosted a Kilmer conference.
The Fighting 69th
In the 1940 film, The Fighting 69th directed by William Keighley and starring James Cagney, Kilmer is represented as a character secondary played by Jeffrey Lynn (19,091,995).
Camp Kilmer
Camp Kilmer, opened in 1942 in what is now Edison, New Jersey, a shipping center of the soldiers who are the European theater during World War II. Many of the original buildings, and is now the location of the Livingston campus of Rutgers University where he is appointed a library in his honor.
Joyce Kilmer Park
Joyce Kilmer Park, is located on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. The park is located close to Yankee Stadium.
Joyce Kilmer Square
Joyce Kilmer Plaza, is located along the highway, while the Kings. and Quentin Road in East 12th Street in Brooklyn. It is under the jurisdiction City Parks and Recreation Department, and has a flapole, benches and a monument to Kilmer.
Joyce Kilmer Middle School
Joyce Kilmer Middle School, located Fairfax County, Virginia, is named.
Joyce Kilmer Memorial Fireplace
Joyce Kilmer Memorial Fireplace - The large stone fireplace was built in Como Park in St. Paul, MN in 1936 in memory of Kilmer. Today, the fireplace is in poor condition and a sunken pool with miniature waterfalls nearby, also called for Kilmer, no longer exists. Kilmer was honored by St. Paul W. Parks Superintendent Lamont Kauffman, who was a founding member of the post of Joyce Kilmer American Legion.
Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest
The Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest (17 394 acres/15 km) located in the Nantahala National Forest, near Robbinsville in Graham County, North Carolina was opened in Kilmer memory on July 10, 1936.
Kilmer rest area
The state of New Jersey and New Jersey Turnpike Authority has appointed a rest area on Highway New Jersey, located in East Brunswick township after him.
Joyce Kilmer Elementary School
The town of Mahwah, New Jersey, which was home to nearly Kilmer 1913 to the end of his life, has a school that bears his name, the Joyce Kilmer Elementary School. Nobody Inn, a bar and grill at 150 Franklin Turnpike in Mahwah (next to the railroad Erie-Lackawanna tracks a few hundred yards from the border of Suffern, New York), which closed in 2002, is widely believed to occupy the house that inspired the poem Kilmer, "the house with nobody in it. "The poem begins:" Every time we walk along the Erie track Suffern / voy a poor farm with broken tiles and black. "
Joyce Kilmer Elementary School is located in Trenton, New Jersey, as part of the district of Trenton Public Schools, and in the municipal Milltown, New Jersey.
Joyce Kilmer Elementary School, opened in 1966, is in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. It is part of Community Consolidated School District No. 21 Wheeling Township, Illinois. It feeds on James Fenimore Cooper Middle School, also in Buffalo Grove.
Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest
Society Philolexian Columbia University, a college literary society that Kilmer was vice president, has the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Annual Bad Poetry Contest in his honor.
Works
Summer of Love. (New York: Baker & Taylor, 1911).
Trees and other poems. (New York: Doubleday Doran and Co., 1914).
The Circus and Other Essays. (New York: Lawrence J. Gomme, 1916).
Main Street and Other Poems. (New York: George H. Doran, 1917).
The courage of the Enlightenment. A speech at Campion College, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, members of the graduating class, 15 June 1917. (Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin: 1917).
Dreams and Images: an anthology of Catholic poets. (Ed. by Joyce Kilmer). (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1917).
Literature in the manufacture of some of its creators. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1917).
Poems, essays and letters in two volumes. Robert Cortes Holliday (ed.). (Volume I: Report and Poems, Volume Two: works in prose) (New York: George H. Doran, 1918 - published posthumously).
The Circus and Other Essays and Fugitive pieces. (New York: George H. Doran, 1921 - published posthumously).
Notes
Although a Joyce was the fourth and youngest child of his family, his two brothers, Ellen Annie Kilmer (18751876) and Charles Willoughby Kilmer (1880), died before birth, while his older brother Federico Anda Kilmer (18731899), died when Joyce was thirteen, most likely a suicide in a hotel in Philadelphia.
U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman John E. Kilmer, a recipent of the Medal of Honor in Korea is a distant relative of Joyce Kilmer.
References
Specific
^ Hillis, John. Joyce Kilmer: A Bio-Bibliography. Master of Science (Library Science) Thesis. American Catholic University. (Washington, DC: 1962), 27.
^ Mencken, HL The American Mercury. Volume XIII, No. 49. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, January 1928), 33.
^ Maynard, Theodore. A book of poetry modern Catholic. (New York: Henry Holt, 1925), 1617.
^ "Mrs. FB Kilmer Dead, Mother of war poet. He wrote of memories of his son who died in France in 1918. He was a native of Albany.. "New York Times. January 2, 1932, Saturday.
^ Birth certificate of Alfred Joyce Kilmer, December 6, 1886, on microfilm in the Archives of the State of New Jersey, 225 West State Street, Trenton, New Jersey.
Abc ^ Joyce Kilmer: FAQ and Fantasies, published website by Miriam A. Kilmer, Kilmer genealogical information. Retrieved on December 26, 2006.
^ For Dr. Kilmer as the inventor of Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder, see: "Poem famous tree comes from the U." by Annie Reuter, The Daily Targum October 12, 2004. Retrieved on December 28, 2006.
^ Richard G. Durnin and Joyce Kilmer and New Brunswick, New Jersey and Middlesex County Cultural Heritage Commission (1993)
^ List of Missionaries and Rectors - Christ Church in New Brunswick, NJ, published by the Church of Christ (Episcopal), New Brunswick, New Jersey (no further authorship information available). Retrieved on August 17, 2006.
^ The baptismal records of Christ Church, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
^ "Historic New Brunswick." Archived from the original on 2007-03-10. http://web.archive.org/web/20070310054802/http://www.newbrunswick.com/historic.asp., published by New Brunswick City Market, (no further details given the author) visited August 17, 2006.
^ Hillis, op. cit., 9.
^ Hillis, op. cit., 10.
Ab ^ Hillis, op. cit., 11.
^ Marriage certificate for Alfred Joyce Aline Murray Kilmer, June 9, 1908, on microfilm in the Archives of the State of New Jersey, 225 West State Street, Trenton, New Jersey.
^ St. Benedict's
^ Hillis, op. cit., 13.
^ Hillis, op. cit., 14.
Ab ^ Holliday, Robert Cortes (ed.). "Memory" in Joyce Kilmer: Poems, essays and letters. 2 vols. (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1918), 1:24.; Hillis, op. cit., 21
^ Hillis, op. cit., 18
^ Letter from Joyce Kilmer's father James J. Daly, January 9, 1914, in Holliday, Robert Cortes (ed.) and Kilmer, Joyce. Poems, essays and letters in two volumes. (New York: George H. Doran, 1918 - published posthumously).
^ Daly, James Jeremiah. "Some letters of Joyce Kilmer." A Joyful in its asceticism, and other tests. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Bruce, 1931), 76-86.
^ Hillis, op. cit., 35.
^ Hillis, op. cit., 32.
^ Charter Joyce Kilmer to Aline Kilmer, November 24, 1917.
^ First World War Diary of Joseph J. Jones Sr., published in the website "A Jones Family" by Joseph J. Jones III. Retrieved on December 27, 2006.
^ The history of the Fighting 69th: Rouge Bouquet (without the additional information given the authorship). Retrieved on December 27, 2006.
^ Duffy, Francis Patrick. Father Duffy's Story. (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919), 350.
Ab ^ Hillis, op. cit., 36.
^ Duffy, op. cit. and 193.
^ "Joyce Kilmer died in the west facade, former staff member Sergeantcy times he had won in the 165th Infantry. His writings known known author was Rutgers and Columbia Graduate - Several veterans of the 69 dead. His poem Lusitania. He fought at the Marne. 69th veteran dies. Lieut. Harwood Doing Fine '. " Parents receive letter after the reported death date ".. The New York Times. August 18, 1918, Sunday." Sgt Joyce Kilmer Infantry Division Rainbow 165, which was one of the 147 staff members of The New York to enter the service of his country, has died in France. He was 31 years old. "
^ "Joyce Kilmer cited for French Croix de Guerre.." New York Times. January 2, 1919.
^ "Mass for Joyce Kilmer. Funeral at St. Patrick's tomorrow morning Cathedral.. "New York Times. October 13, 1918, Sunday." Plans have been completed for the solemn Mass for Joyce Kilmer, poet and journalist, who was killed on July 30 in the battle of the Oureq. The mass, held under the auspices of the Joyce Kilmer Memorial ... "
^ Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) - Author of Trees and Other Poems, site website published by Miriam A. Kilmer, citing Kilmer, Kenton. Memories of my Father, Joyce Kilmer (Joyce Kilmer Centennial, 1993) ISBN 978-0963752406. Retrieved on December 25, 2006.
^ Full text of the poem and dedication. Retrieved on September 2, 2007.
^ "Mrs. Henry Alden, writer, dies at 70. She was the widow of the editor Harper's. He won the National Award at 76. Posted in 15. Poem, "Trees" was dedicated to her by author, Joyce Kilmer, his son-in-Law "The .. New York Times. April 12, 1936.
^ A parody of "interpretation" of the poem
^ Nash, Ogden. "Song of the Open Road" published by first time in Argosy. Vol 12 No. 8. (July 1951), 63.
^ Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918) - Author of Trees and Other Poems, website published by Miriam A. Kilmer said, citing Kilmer, Kenton. Memories of my Father, Joyce Kilmer (Joyce Kilmer Centenario, 1993) ISBN 978-0963752406. Retrieved on December 25, 2006.
^ Hillis, op. cit., 28.
^ What a difference a tree citing Lax, Roer and Smith, Frederick. The great song thesaurus. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989). ISBN 0195054083. Retrieved on December 25, 2006.
^ The New York Times, September 19, 1963. It is noteworthy that in an article reporting the disappearance the "Kilmer Oak" is a quote that "Rutgers said it could not prove that Kilmer ... had been inspired by the oak.", which further confirms this attribution is unsubstantiated and its dissemination in the field of rumors and urban (or in this case provincial) legend.
^ Kilmer Oak Tree, Highland Park (NJ) Environmental Commission (no further details given the author). Retrieved on December 26, 2006.
^ Press Release: "New Jersey student named Cook Co Educational Practices and Students Association of the Year "(Press Release: June 13, 2006), published by Cook College of Rutgers University and New Agricultural Experiment Station, New Jersey, no further details given authorship. Retrieved on December 26, 2006.
^ Davenport, Guy. "Trees" in the geography of the imagination. (La Prensa Akadine, 1997). ISBN 1-888173-33-5. 177-9
^ Dunnings, Stephen. "Scripting: a manner of speaking" in English journal, vol. 63, No. 6 (September 1974), 32-40, passim.
^ Boyle, Frederick H. "Eighth graders enjoy poetry" in English journal, vol. 46, No. 8 (November 1957), 506-507.
^ Hillis, op. cit., 26, 40.
^ Aiken, Conrad Potter. onfectionary and caviar: Edward Bliss Reed, John Cowper Powys, Joyce Kilmer, Theodosia Garrison, William Carlos Williams, Skepticism. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919), 178-86.
Abc ^ Hillis, op. cit., 19.
^ Campbell, Pearl H. "Kilmer, winner at the end of the Catholic Church" in the Magnificat. Volume 64. (June 1939), 78-82
^ Connolly, Helen. "Kilmer the essayist "in Magnificat. Volume 76. (July 1945), 128-31
Mappen ^, Marc The Encyclopedia of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey: University Press of Rutgers, 2004), 117.
^ Kilmer Rest Area - New Jersey Turnpike published by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (no further authorship information available). Retrieved on January 13, 2007.
^ The Society web site Philolexian Philolexian Foundation. Published by the Foundation Philolexian (no information available yet the author). Retrieved on January 13, 2007.
Books and printed materials
Aiken, Conrad Potter. onfectionary and caviar: Edward Bliss Reed, John Cowper Powys, Joyce Kilmer, Theodosia Garrison, Williams Carlos Williams, in skepticism. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919). ISBN NO. (Pre-1964)
Boyle, Frederick H. "Students in eighth degree enjoyment of poetry in the English journal, vol. 46, No. 8 (November 1957), 506-507.
Campbell, Pearl H. "Kilmer, the late award Catholic Church "in the Magnificat. Volume 64. (June 1939), 78-82
Loads, Harry J. I give my life: A Biography of Joyce Kilmer (Boston, Massachusetts: Daughters St. Paul Editions, 1964). NO ISBN (pre-1964)
Connolly, Helen. "Kilmer the essayist" in MagnificaAlfred Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886 July 30, 1918) was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, teacher and editor. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world and its religious faith, Kilmer is remembered for a poem called Trees (1913), which was published in the collection of trees and other poems in 1914. While most of his works are unknown, a select few of his poems remain popular and are frequently published in anthologies. Several critics, both contemporary and scholars Kilmer modern disparaged Kilmer's work as being too simple, too sentimental, and that his style was too traditional, even archaic.
At the time of their deployment in Europe during the First World War (19141918), Kilmer was considered the leading American Catholic poet and teacher of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries GK Chesterton (18741936) and Hilaire Belloc (18,701,953). A U.S. sergeant Regiment 165th Infantry, Kilmer was killed in the Second Battle of Marne in 1918, at the age of 31.
t. Volume 76. (July 1945), 128-31.
Covell, John E. Joyce Kilmer: A Literary Biography. (Brunswick, Georgia: Write-Fit Communications, 2000). ISBN 978-0615111759
Daly, James Jeremiah. An ascetic Alegre, and other tests. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Bruce, 1931). NO ISBN (Pre-1964).
Duffy, Patrick Francis. Father Duffy's Story. (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919). NO ISBN (Pre-1964).
Dunnings, Stephen. "Scripts: a way speak "in the English journal, Vol 63, No. 6 (September 1974), 32-40, passim.
Hillis, John. Joyce Kilmer: A Bio-Bibliography. Master of Science (Library Science) Thesis. Catholic University of America. (Washington, DC: 1962). ISBN NO.
Holliday, Robert Cortes (ed.). emoir in Joyce Kilmer: Poems, essays and letters, two volumes. (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1918), 1:17 ff. NO ISBN (Pre-1964).
Kilmer, Annie Kilburn. Caprichos, more quirks. (New York: Frye Publishing Co., 1929). NO ISBN (Pre-1964).
Kilmer, Annie Kilburn. Memories of My Son, Sergeant Joyce Kilmer. (New York: Brentano's, 1920). NO ISBN (Pre-1964).
Kilmer, Annie Kilburn. The leaves of my life. (New York: Frye Publishing Co., 1925). NO ISBN (Pre-1964).
Kilmer, Kenton. Memories of My Father Joyce Kilmer (Joyce Kilmer Centennial, 1993). ISBN 978-0963752406
Lax, Roer and Smith, Frederick. The great song thesaurus. (New York: Oxford University Press 1989). ISBN 0195054083
Mencken, HL The American Mercury. Volume XIII, No. 49. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, January 1928). NO ISBN (pre-1964)
Maynard, Theodore. A book of modern Catholic verse. (New York: Henry Holt, 1925). NO ISBN (pre-1964)
Roberto, CSC brother's death under the trees: A Story of Joyce Kilmer (South Bend, Indiana: Press Dujarie (University of Notre Dame), 1967). NO ISBN (privately published).
Smaridge, Norah. Pen and bayonet: The Story of Joyce Kilmer. (Stroud, Gloucestershire, England: Hawthorn, 1962). NO ISBN (Pre-1964).
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NAME
Alfred Joyce Kilmer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
American poet, editor, literary critic soldier
DATE OF BIRTH
December 6, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH
New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)
DATE OF DEATH
July 30 1918
PLACE OF DEATH
near Seringe, France
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