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George Sterling (December 1, 1869 – November 17, 1926) was an American writer based in the San Francisco, California Bay Area and Carmel-by-the-Sea.He was considered a prominent poet and playwright and proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
"The Testimony of the Suns" is a lengthy astronomical poem by American poet and playwright George Sterling that combines elements of science, fantasy, science fiction, and philosophy. Literary historian S. T. Joshi called it Sterling's "longest poem and one of h
Sterling had worked with the millionaire Club member Richard M. Hotaling on The Twilight of the Kings. He inscribed Truth copy 247 of 285 to Hotaling: “May these pathetic incidents awaken in your heart new ardor for Truth!” [13] July 1926: George Sterling in Bohemian Grove under a painting of Truth, Sterling, and Domenico Brescia.
The lyrics interspersed throughout the drama are as beautiful as any by the Elizabethans.” [3] Influential critic H. L. Mencken said of Sterling: “I think his dramatic poem Lilith was the greatest thing he ever wrote.” [4] Thirty-four years later, in his book George Sterling, Thomas E. Benediktsson, agreed: “The allegorical Lilith is ...
In his 1980 book George Sterling, Thomas Benediktsson classified Sterling as “an American Decadent,” and described ‘A Wine of Wizardry’ as a poem in which “nearly every characteristic of Decadence can be found: the search for novelty, the interest in the exotic and the unnatural, the aesthetic assumption that poetry is a means of ...
George Sterling Ansel Ryerson (January 21, 1855 – May 20, 1925) was an Ontario physician, businessman, and political figure. He represented Toronto in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1893 to 1898 as a Conservative and then Conservative-Protestant Protective Association member.
"The Black Vulture" is a sonnet by American poet George Sterling first printed in March 1910. The poem was cited by Thomas E. Benediktsson in his book George Sterling as "a sonnet which became Sterling’s most consistently praised and most anthologized poem."
In late 1916, Sterling traveled from his San Francisco home to Los Angeles to work with Ordynski on the new play. 1916 first page of the pencil first draft of The Play of Everyman by George Sterling. Sterling found the stenographer's translation "difficult material to work on." [4] He also had a copy of Jedermann in German. Fortunately ...