The Passions that we Fought with and Subdued
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Poet Trumbull Stickney 1874–1904
Subjects Midlife, Growing Old, Living
Poetic Terms Epigram
Biography
Trumbull Stickney is best remembered as a promising young poet and scholar who died before his work could fully mature. As William Payne described his poems in a 1906 review for Dial: "Promise rather than fulfillment is the mark of this work as a whole, for it reveals Stickney as still groping for a distinctive manner rather than as having reached a definitive expression of his powers." A brilliant scholar and enthusiastic poet, . . .
Poems by Trumbull Stickney
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SUBJECT Midlife, Growing Old, Living
Poetic Terms Epigram
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