Arthur Guiterman
Arthur Guiterman (Template:IPAc-en; November 20, 1871 Vienna – January 11, 1943 New York) was an American writer best known for his humorous poems.
Life and career
Guiterman was born of American parents in Vienna. His father was Alexander Gütermann, born in the Bavarian village Redwitz an der Rodach, and his mother was Louisa Wolf, born in Cincinnati.<ref>Albert Heckscher: Stammtafel Koppel (oder Thurnauer), Kopenhagen 1883, p. 23; online version see: Charles P. Stanton Family Collection (Center für Jewish History) [1]</ref> Arthur graduated from the City College of New York in 1891, and later was married in 1909 to Vida Lindo.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was an editor of the Woman's Home Companion and the Literary Digest. In 1910, he cofounded the Poetry Society of America, and later served as its president in 1925–26.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
One poem about modern progress, with rhyming couplets such as "First dentistry was painless;/Then bicycles were chainless", ends: Template:Cquote
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His 1936 "D.A.R.ling" satire is about the Daughters of the American Revolution and three other clubs open only to descendants of pre-Independence British Americans.
He also notably wrote the libretto for Walter Damrosch's The Man Without a Country which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on May 12, 1937.<ref>Music: Man Without a Country, Time, May 24, 1937</ref>
Bibliography
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Poetry
- Collections
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- List of poems
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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| Indifference | 1925 | Template:Cite magazine | |
| I've never found that being clever | 1925 | Template:Cite magazine | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (I–III) | 1925 | Template:Cite magazine | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (IV-VI) | 1925 | Template:Cite magazine | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (VII–IX) | 1925 | Template:Cite magazine | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (X–XII) | 1925 | Template:Cite magazine | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (XIII–XV) | 1925 | Template:Cite magazine | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (XVI–XVIII) | 1925 | Template:Cite magazine | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (XIX–XXI) | 1925 | Template:Cite magazine | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (XXII–XXIV) | 1925 | Template:Cite magazine | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (XXV–XXVII) | 1925 | Template:Cite magazine | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (XXVIII–XXX) | 1925 | Template:Cite magazine | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (XXXI–XXXIII) | 1925 | Template:Cite magazine | |
| Religion | 1925 | Template:Cite magazine | |
| Rendezvous | 1925 | Template:Cite magazine |
- Translations
Footnotes
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External links
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- November 28, 1915, New York Times, Poets' Opportunities Greater than Ever Before; Arthur Guiterman Tells How to Make a Living Out of Verse and Gives a List of Don'ts for Aspiring Poets;- Advises Writing on Topical Themes
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- American male poets
- American humorists
- American humorous poets
- American magazine editors
- City College of New York alumni
- The New Yorker people
- American opera librettists
- 1871 births
- 1943 deaths
- American male non-fiction writers
- American expatriates in Austria-Hungary
- Presidents of the Poetry Society of America