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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.
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 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
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 ...
"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 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.
James Marie Hopper (July 23, 1876 – August 28, 1956) was an American writer and novelist. He was also an early college football player and coach, playing at the University of California, Berkeley in the late 1890s and then serving single seasons as head football coach at Nevada State University—now known as the University of Nevada, Reno—in 1900 and at his alma mater, California, in 1904.