Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and novelist. Born in Clinton, Oneida County, New York, to James Isaac and Mary Elizabeth (Stevens) Scollard. Educated at Clinton Liberal Institute, Hamilton College, and Harvard University (1881–1883). Attended the University of Cambridge in England for two years. Joined Hamilton College as an Associate Professor of English (1888–96 and 1911–12). Married Georgia Brown of Jackson in 1890. Divorced Georgia and married poet Jessie Belle Rittenhouse in 1924. A friend of fellow poet Frank Dempster Sherman. Dedicated most of his life to creative writing, which encompassed adaptations of classical French genres, poetic meditations on pantheism, and poetry on World War I. Died in Kent, Connecticut. Some of his poetry collections include Lyrics From a Library (1917), The Singing Heart (1934), and Songs from a Southern Shore (1932). Biographical information: Oxford Reference; Dumas Malone (Ed.), Dictionary of American Biography (Vol. VIII), (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935), p. 485. (NM)