Arlo Bates

Arlo Bates (1850-1918) was an American author, born at East Machias, Me. He graduated from Bowdoin (1876). He became the editor of the Boston Sunday Courier (1880-93) and afterward professor of English in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Novels:

• The Pagans (1884)^[1]
• The Wheel of Fire (1885)
• The Philistines (1888)^[2]
• The Puritans (1899)^[3]
• Love in a Cloud (1900)

Collected Poems:

• Berries of the Brier (1886)
• Sonnets in Shadow, (1887)
• a Poet and his Self (1891)
• Told in the Gate (1892)
• The Torchbearers (1894)
• Under the Beech Tree (1899)

Collected Criticisms:

• Talks on Writing English (1897)
• Talks on the Study of Literature (1898)
• The Diary of a Saint (1902)
• Talks on Teaching Literature (1906)
• The Intoxicated Ghost (1908)

In 1912 he wrote an introduction to E. P. Whipple's Charles Dickens.

References

1. ^ The Pagans, available freely at Project Gutenberg
2. ^ The Philistines, available freely at Project Gutenberg
3. ^ The Puritans, available freely at Project Gutenberg

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain