William Vaughn Moody
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William Vaughn Moody (1869 - 1910) was a U.S. dramatist and poet, born at Spencer, Ind.
Author of The Great Divide, first presented under the title of The Sabine Woman at the Garrick theatre in Chicago on April 12, 1906. Moody's poetic dramas included The Masque of Judgment (1900), The Fire Bringer (1904), and The Death of Eve (left undone at his death).
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[edit] Early life
His parents died while he was a boy, and he had to work to help support himself while he completed his education. After New Albany High School he went on to attend Harvard University, where he graduated in 1893.
[edit] In academia
He taught English at Harvard and Radcliffe, leaving Cambridge to be instructor (1895-1901) and then (1901-07) assistant professor, of English and rhetoric at the University of Chicago. He received the degree of Litt.D. from Yale in 1908, and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
[edit] Early Death
As a poet he was perhaps the most promising man of his day in America.[1] As a part of his literary accomplishment are to be reckoned his History of English Literature (1907), in collaboration with R. M. Lovett, and several editions of the English classics, notably Milton's Poems (1899) in the "Cambridge Poets." His early death was lamented as a misfortune to American letters.
[edit] External links
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
