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.[1] Arthur graduated from the City College of New York in 1891, and later was married in 1909 to Vida Lindo.[2] 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.[3]
One poem about modern progress, with rhyming couplets such as "First dentistry was painless;/Then bicycles were chainless", ends:
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New motor roads are dustless,
The latest steel is rustless,
Our tennis courts are sodless,
Our new religions—godless.
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Another Guiterman poem is "On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness":[4]
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The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls
Of mastodons, are billiard balls.
The sword of Charlemagne the Just
Is Ferric Oxide, known as rust.
The grizzly bear, whose potent hug
Was feared by all, is now a rug.
Great Caesar's bust is on the shelf,
And I don't feel so well myself.
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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.
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The D.A.R.lings
chatter like starlings
telling their ancestors' names,
while grimly aloof,
with looks of reproof,
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The Cincinnati,
merry and chatty,
dangle their badges and pendants;
but haughty and proud,
disdaining the crowd,
brood the Mayflower descendants.
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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.[5]
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 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | |
| I've never found that being clever | 1925 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (I–III) | 1925 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (IV-VI) | 1925 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (VII–IX) | 1925 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (X–XII) | 1925 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (XIII–XV) | 1925 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (XVI–XVIII) | 1925 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (XIX–XXI) | 1925 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (XXII–XXIV) | 1925 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (XXV–XXVII) | 1925 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (XXVIII–XXX) | 1925 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | |
| Lyrics from the Pekinese (XXXI–XXXIII) | 1925 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | |
| Religion | 1925 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". | |
| Rendezvous | 1925 | Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". |
- Translations
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Footnotes
References
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- ↑ Albert Heckscher: Stammtafel Koppel (oder Thurnauer), Kopenhagen 1883, p. 23; online version see: Charles P. Stanton Family Collection (Center für Jewish History) [1]
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- ↑ Music: Man Without a Country, Time, May 24, 1937
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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