Charles Greenleaf Bell

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Charles Greenleaf Bell (October 31, 1916 – December 25, 2010) commonly known as Charles G. Bell, was a scholar, poet and writer.[1]

Education

He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from the

Fulbright fellow. Bell was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Raven Society.[2][3]

Career

He taught English at Blackburn College from 1939 to 1940 and English and then physics at

Fulbright professor at Technische Hockschule in Munich. Bell taught at St. John’s College
in Maryland until 1967, and was a tutor and director of graduate programs from 1972 to 1973 at St. John’s College in New Mexico.

He was script writer for the film The Spirit of Rome (1964) [4] and script advisor for the film Ingenium Romae (1969), both made for Encyclopedia Britannica.[5][6]

A major work was Symbolic History Through Sight and Sound, a 60 hour video cultural history of the world, made between 1970 and 1990. Many excerpts are on YouTube.

Bell worked as a lecturer at several other colleges such as Black Mountain College, the University of Rochester, and at the Springfield Public Library.  Also, Bell has served as a guest professor at the University of Frankfurt in Germany, the State University of New York, and the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez.[7]

The Kahler-Kreis group of intellectuals was named so by Charles Greenleaf Bell.[citation needed]


Personal life

Bell was married firstly to Mildred Cheatham (later surnamed MacKenzie with her second husband) with whom he had three children, Nona, Charlotte, Delia. His second wife was Diana Mason,[8] (known to her family and friends by the nickname 'Danny') she was the granddaughter of Sir John Middlemore, MP, they had two daughters, Carola Middlemore Bell and Sandra Bell. In 2006, he moved to Maine to live with his daughter, where at the age of ninety-two he was still writing, working on a manuscript entitled Poetry and Translation. He died on December 25, 2010.[9][10][11] He was the nephew-in-law of Amphilis Throckmorton Middlemore, grandson-in-law of MP Sir John Middlemore and great nephew-in-law of Thomas Middlemore.

Major works

  • Songs for a New America (1953)
  • Delta Return (1956)
  • The Married Land (1962)
  • The Half Gods (1968)
  • Five Chambered Heart (1986)[12]
  • Millennial Harvest: The Life And Collected Poems of Charles Greenleaf Bell (2006)[13]

References

  1. ^ "Charles G. Bell, Mississippi author". www.mswritersandmusicians.com. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  2. ISSN 1548-9949
    .
  3. ^ r2WPadmin. "Bell, Charles G ". Mississippi Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2021-01-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Spirit of Rome" – via YouTube.
  5. ^ "BFI Charles Bell". Archived from the original on February 3, 2021.
  6. ^ r2WPadmin. "Bell, Charles G ". Mississippi Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2021-01-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ISSN 1548-9949
    .
  8. ^ "Santa Fe Living Treasures".
  9. ^ "Charles G. Bell". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  10. ^ "Charles Bell Obituary". Santa Fe New Mexican. 4 January 2011. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  11. ^ "Charles Bell Obituary (2010) - Central Maine". www.legacy.com. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
  12. ^ Five Chambered Heart: Poems. Persea Books. January 1985.
  13. ISBN 0930829603
    .

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