Chapter V

VAN DYKE, HENRY. Born at Germantown, Pa., Nov. 10, 1852; graduated at
Polytechnical Institute of Brooklyn 1869; A.B. degree from Princeton
1873; M.A. degree from there 1876; graduated from Princeton
Theological Seminary 1877; studied at University of Berlin 1877-9; has
received honorary degrees from Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Union,
Wesleyan, Pennsylvania, and Oxford. Pastor of United Congregational
Church, Newport, R.I., 1879-82, and of the Brick Presbyterian Church,
New York, 1883-1900; professor of English literature at Princeton from
1900; U.S. minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg 1913-17. Author
of "The Poetry of Tennyson," "Sermons to Young Men," "Little Rivers,"
"The Other Wise Man," "The First Christmas Tree," "The Builders, and
Other Poems," "The Lost Word," "Fisherman's Luck," "The Toiling of
Felix, and Other Poems," "The Blue Flower," "Music, and Other Poems,"
"Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land," "The Mansion," and "The Unknown
Quantity." _Four Things, 3; Work_, 65.

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WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Born at Haverhill, Mass., Dec. 17, 1807; died
at Hampton Falls, N.H., Sept. 7, 1892. Of Quaker ancestory; father a
poor farmer; as a boy he injured his health by hard work on the farm.
Taught school; attended Haverhill Academy for two terms 1827-8; edited
Haverhill _Gazette_ 1830; returned to the farm in broken health 1832.
Member of Massachusetts Legislature 1835-6. An ardent opponent of
slavery; edited the Pennsylvania _Freeman_ 1838-40; several times
attacked by mobs because of his views on slavery. Leading writer for
the Washington _National Era _1847-57; contributed to the _Atlantic
Monthly_ 1857. Some of his well-known poems are "Maud Muller," "The
Barefoot Boy," "Barbara Freitchie," "Snow-Bound," and "The Eternal
Goodness." _My Triumph_, 90.

WIDDEMER, MARGARET. Born at Doylestown, Pa.; educated at home; graduated
at the Drexel Institute Library School 1909. Began writing in
childhood; her first published poem "The Factories" was widely quoted;
married Robert Haven Schauffler 1919. Among her books are "The
Rose-Garden Husband," "Winona of the Camp Fire," "Factories, with
Other Lyrics," "Why Not?" "The Wishing-Ring Man," "The Old Road to
Paradise," and "The Board Walk." _To Youth After Pain_, 103.

WILCOX, ELLA WHEELER. Born at Johnston Centre, Wis., 1855; died at her
home in Connecticut, Oct. 31, 1919. Educated "Poems of Pleasure,"
"Kingdom of Love," "Poems of Passion," "Poems of Progress," "Poems of
Sentiment," "New Thought Common Sense," "Picked Poems," "Gems from
Wilcox," "Faith," "Love," "Hope," "Cheer," and "The World and I."
_Life_, 139; _Smiles_, 226; _Solitude_, 16; _The Disappointed_, 126;
_Will_, 107; _Wishing_, 86; _Worth While_, 28.

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, Eng., Apr. 7, 1770;
died at Rydal Mount, Apr. 23, 1850. Educated at Hawkshead grammar
school and Cambridge University, where he graduated 1791. Traveled on
Continent 1790; in France 1791-2, where he sympathized with the French
republicans. Received £900 legacy 1795, and settled with his sister
Dorothy at Racedown, Dorsetshire; to be near Coleridge he removed to
Alfoxden 1797; went to Continent 1798; returned to England 1799, and
settled at Grasmere in the lake district; married Mary Hutchison 1802;
settled at Allan Bank 1808; removed to Grasmere 1811. Appointed
distributer of stamps 1813, and settled at Rydal Mount; traveled in
Scotland 1814 and 1832; on the Continent 1820 and 1837. Given a
pension of £300 by Peel 1842; became poet laureate 1843. Some of his
well-known poems are "The Excursion," "Tintern Abbey," "Yarrow
Revisited," "The Prelude," "Intimations of Immortality," and "We Are
Seven." _Ode to Duty_, 190; _The Daffodils_, 180; _The Rainbow_, 117.

WOTTON, SIR HENRY. Born at Bocton Malherbe, Kent, Eng., 1568; died at
Eton, 1639. Educated at Winchester and Oxford; on the Continent
1588-95; became the secretary of the Earl of Essex 1595; English
ambassador to Venice, Germany, etc.; became provost of Eton College
1624. _Character of a Happy Life_, 214.