Biography of Richard Hovey
Richard Hovey (May 4, 1864 – February 24, 1900) was an American poet. Graduating from Dartmouth College in 1885, he is known in part for penning the school Alma Mater, Men of Dartmouth.Biography
Hovey was born in Normal, Illinois, the son of Major General Charles Edward Hovey and Harriet Spofford Hovey. He grew up in North Amherst, Massachusetts, and in Washington, D.C., before attending Dartmouth. His first volume of poems was privately published in 1880.
He collaborated with Canadian poet Bliss Carman on three volumes of "tramp" verse: Songs from Vagabondia (1894), More Songs from Vagabondia (1896), and Last Songs from Vagabondia (1900), the last being published after Hovey's death. Hovey and Carman were members of the "Visionists" social circle along with F. Holland Day and Herbert Copeland, who published the "Vagabondia" series.
Some twenty-nine poets have attempted to write sequels for Byron's Don Juan. Hovey was one of them. Samuel Chew praised Hovey's “Canto XVII” in his book To the End of the Trail. “This is one of the most convincing reproductions of the spirit and movement of Byron's verse that I have ever come across. It is supposed to be written by Byron in Hades. The poet refuses to take up the poem at the point at which Death had cut him short.—
In the sequel we hear nothing of Juan; the satire is expended upon current affairs. Byron is full of curiosity as to events on earth:
He died after undergoing minor surgery for a varicocele in 1900.
Selected poems
Sea Gypsy by Richard Hovey
When We Are Dead by Richard Hovey
John Keats
To a Friend
Philosophy
The Old Pine
In Memoriam
Squab Flights
Kronos
College Days
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The South
References
External links
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Biography of Richard Hovey
Works by Richard Hovey at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Richard Hovey at Internet Archive
Works by Richard Hovey at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Dartmouth Lyrics by Richard Hovey at Making Of America Books
Poems of Richard Hovey
Illinois State University Hovey Memorial, 1931
Richard Hovey - Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL newspaper)
The Richard Hovey Collection at Dartmouth College Library
