Hugh McCulloch (poet)

Hugh McCulloch (March 9, 1869 - March 27, 1902) was an American poet. Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana on March 2, 1869, he attended Harvard University and served as an English assistant there from 1892 to 1894.Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1902. Page 458. Third Series, Vol. VII. He later went abroad to devote himself to his literary work. His verse, which included 1893's the Quest of Heracles, was praised for its "careful technique and reserve power." He died on March 27, 1902 in Florence, Italy, shortly before he turned 33. Soon after, a volume of his last poems while written in Florence were published, Written in Florence: the Last Verses of Hugh McCulloch. McCulloch was a member of a group of Harvard poets, described by George Santayana as having been "alone against the world", who died young, including George Cabot Lodge, Trumbull Stickney, Thomas Parker Sanborn and Philip Henry Savage.Shand-Tucci, Douglass. Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900: Ralph Adams Cram: Life and Architecture. Page 425. University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

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• The Quest of Heracles and Other Poems (1893) >
• Written in Florence: The Last Verses of Hugh McCulloch (1902) >

Category: American poets Category: 1869 births Category: 1902 deaths