Charles Wharton Stork

Charles Wharton Stork, c. 1930

Charles Wharton Stork (12 February 1881 – 22 May 1971) was an American literary author, poet, and translator.[1]

Life

Charles Wharton Stork was born in Philadelphia on 12 February 1881. He graduated from Haverford College and Harvard University and taught in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He died in Philadelphia on 22 May 1971.[1]

He wrote poems such as Beauty's Burden,[2] Death - Divination and The Silent Folk.[3] He translated the hymn "We Worship Thee, Almighty Lord" by Johan Olof Wallin,[4] and some of the songs of Carl Michael Bellman.[5] He is known to have disliked modernist literature.[6]

His translations of the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding were harshly criticized in reviews by Svea Bernhard[7] and Ernst W. Olson[8] but generally praised in an article by Axel J. Uppvall,[9] who along with Olson had also rendered Fröding's poems into English.[10][11]

Stork and his British contemporary, C. D. Locock, published several volumes of Swedish poetry in translation.[12] Among the authors they covered were Gustaf Fröding, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Birger Sjöberg and August Strindberg.[13][14]

Works

Translations

References

  1. 1 2 "Charles Wharton Stork 1881-1971". Hymntime. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Beauty's Burden". Bartleby. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Charles Wharton Stork Poems". PoemHunter. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Augustana Choir Discography". Augustana College, Illinois. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  5. ↑ Stork, Charles Wharton. Anthology of Swedish lyrics from 1750 to 1915. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1917.
  6. ↑ Filreis, Alan (2012). Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960. UNC Press Books. pp. 210–211. ISBN 978-1-4696-0663-7.
  7. ↑ Bernhard, Svea (April 1918). "Review: Fröding, Classic and Futurist. Reviewed Work: Gustaf Fröding—Selected Poems by Charles Wharton Stork, Gustaf Fröding". Poetry. 12 (1): 52–54. JSTOR 20571647.
  8. ↑ Olson, Ernst W. (July 1916). "Review. GUSTAF FRODING: SELECTED POEMS". Publications of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. 3 (2): 217–219. JSTOR 40914981.
  9. ↑ Uppvall, Axel J. (July 1916). "Review: Fröding in English. Reviewed Work: Gustaf Fröding—Selected Poems by Charles Wharton Stork, Gustaf Fröding". The Poetry Journal. 6 (1): 27–34.
  10. ↑ Schön, Anders, ed. (1902). Prärieblomman. Lutheran Augustana Book Concern. pp. 240–241.
  11. ↑ The Poetry Journal, (February 1916), pp. 1-6
  12. ↑ Songs and poems from Sweden archive.org. Retrieved: May 23, 2016.
  13. 1 2 The National Cyclopedia Of American Biography, (James T. White & Company: Clifton, New Jersey, 1975), Volume 56, pp. 141-142.
  14. ↑ Who Was Who In Literature, 1906-1934, (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1979) Volume 2, p. 686
  15. ↑ The Book News Monthly, (September 1915 – August 1916), p. 421

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