Robert Herrick (novelist)
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Robert Welch Herrick (21 April 1868 – 23 December 1938) was a novelist who was part of a new generation of American realists. His novels deal with the turbulence of industrialized society and the turmoil it can create in sensitive, isolated people. He was also briefly acting-Governor of the United States Virgin Islands in 1935.
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Biography
Herrick was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 21, 1868, and attended Harvard University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1890.[1] In 1894 he married Harriett Peabody Emery with whom he had a son Phillip Abbot Herrick and daughters Alice Freeman Palmer Herrick and Harriet Peabody Herrick. He later taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1905 to 1923, he was a professor of literature and rhetoric at the University of Chicago, during which time he wrote thirteen novels. Among those considered to be his finest was Web of Life (1900).
Herrick was praised by William James[2] for his frank and clear-eyed views, and his work can be compared to that of England's George Gissing. Both writers developed themes of social discontent, the changing role of women, and the effects of social isolation. While seeing his world with a critical eye, Herrick escaped the shrill tone of muckraking writers like Upton Sinclair. His art was free of dogmatic isms and achieves its power from a melancholic fatalism. He dreaded the brutality and ignorance of the mob as much as he despised the avarice and ennui of the upper class. Herrick was suspicious of political doctrines and utopian legislation, feeling that true progress for human happiness must always lie in individuals making moral choices.
In January 1935, he was appointed as a Secretary to the United States Virgin Islands. During a political scandal involving then-Governor Paul Martin Pearson, both Pearson and his Lieutenant Governor, Lawrence William Cramer, were called away to testify before the Senate. Pearson was ultimately forced to resign and Cramer was appointed as his replacement, but he was forced to remain in Washington, D.C., until the conclusion of the hearings. During this period, Herrick was acting-Governor of the Islands, presiding over legislative sessions.[3]
Herrick died of a heart attack on December 23, 1938 while in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.[4]
Works
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- Literary Love-letters, and Other Stories (1897)
- The Man Who Wins (1897)
- The Gospel of Freedom (1898)
- Love's Dilemmas (1898)
- The Web of Life (1900)
- The Real World (1901)
- Their Child (1903)
- The Common Lot (1904)
- The Memoirs of an American Citizen (1905)
- The Master of the Inn (1908)
- Together (1908)[5]
- A Life for a Life (1910)
- The Healer (1911)
- His Great Adventure (1913)
- One Woman's Life (1913)
- Clark's Field (1914)[6]
- The World Decision (1916)
- The Conscript Mother (1916)
- Homely Lilla (1923)
- Waste (1924)[7]
- Wanderings (1925)
- Chimes (1926)
- Little Black Dog (1931)
- The End of Desire (1932)
- Sometime (1933)
- Selected short stories
- "The Miracle," Harper's, Vol. CXXIV (1911)
- Selected articles
- "The Laboratory Method in the Study of English," The Harvard Monthly, Vol. XVI (1893)
- "The University of Chicago," Scribner's Magazine, Vol. XVIII (1895)
- "The Background of the American Novel," The Yale Review, Vol. III (1913)
- "The American Novel," The Yale Review, Vol. III (1914)
- "The Quality of Imagination in American Life," Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Vol. II (1915)
- "New England and the Novel," The Nation, Vol. CXI (1920)
- "Some European Novels in Translation," The Yale Review, Vol. XIV (1925)
- "Hermaphrodites," The Bookman, Vol. LXIX (1929)
- "What is Dirt?," The Bookman, Vol. LXX (1929)
- "What is Happening with Our Fiction," The Nation, Vol. CXXIX (1929)
- "I Don't Believe in Democracy," The Nation, Vol. CXXXVII (1933)
See also
Notes
Footnotes
Citations
- ↑ The Book Buyer, Vol. XIV, No. 3, 1897, p. 242.
- ↑ Richardson, Robert D. (2007). William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 458.
- ↑ "R. Herrick Named to Virgin Islands," The New York Times, January 15, 1935, p. 13.
- ↑ "Robert Herrick, 70, Aide of Ickes, Dead," The New York Times, December 24, 1938, p. 15.
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Robert Welch Herrick. |
- Works by Robert Herrick at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Robert Herrick at Hathi Trust
- Works by Robert Herrick at Unz.com
- Robert Herrick. Rhetoric
- Works by Robert Herrick at Internet Archive
- Guide to the Robert Herrick Papers 1887-1960
- Works by Robert Herrick at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Preceded by | Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands 1935 (Acting Governor) |
Succeeded by Lawrence William Cramer |
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