Christopher Pearse Cranch
Christopher Pearse Cranch | |
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District of Columbia | |
Died | January 20, 1892 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Occupation | Writer, artist, editor, minister |
Alma mater | |
Spouse | Elizabeth DeWindt |
Relatives | William Cranch (father) |
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Christopher Pearse Cranch (March 8, 1813 – January 20, 1892) was an American writer and artist.
Biography
Cranch was born in the
He graduated from Columbian College (now
Though not one of its founding members, Cranch became associated with the Transcendental Club;[4] he read Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature by December 1836 and beginning in June 1837 served as a substitute editor of the Western Messenger in the absence of James Freeman Clarke.[3] For that journal, Cranch reviewed Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address at Harvard in August 1837 known as "The American Scholar". He referred to the speech as "so full of beauties, full of original thought and illustration" and its author as "the man of genius, the bold deep thinker, and the concise original writer".[5] Cranch's connection with the Transcendentalists ultimately diminished his demand as a minister.
His poetry was published in The Harbinger[6] and The Dial[7] among other publications. He sent "Enosis", which Hazen Carpenter noted as perhaps Cranch's most well-known poem, to Emerson for The Dial on March 2, 1840.[8]
As an artist, Cranch painted landscapes similar to the work of
He died at his home in Cambridge on January 20, 1892, and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts.[10]
Works
- Poems (1844)[9]
- The Last of the Huggermuggers, A Giant Story (1855)[9]
- Kobboltozo, A Sequel to the Last of the Huggermuggers (1857)[9]
- The Aeneid of Virgil (translation, 1872)
- Satan: A Libretto (1874)[9]
- The Bird and the Bell with Other Poems (1875)[9]
- Ariel and Caliban with Other Poems (1887)[9]
References
- ^ Carpenter, Hazen C. "Emerson and Christopher Pearse Cranch" in The New England Quarterly. Vol. 37, No. 1 (March 1964): 26.
- ISBN 978-1-55595-029-3.
- ^ a b c Carpenter, Hazen C. "Emerson and Christopher Pearse Cranch" in The New England Quarterly. Vol. 37, No. 1 (March 1964): 19.
- ISBN 0-8090-3477-8
- ^ Carpenter, Hazen C. "Emerson and Christopher Pearse Cranch" in The New England Quarterly. Vol. 37, No. 1 (March 1964): 20.
- ISBN 0-9766706-4-X
- ISBN 978-0-8203-2958-1
- ^ Carpenter, Hazen C. "Emerson and Christopher Pearse Cranch" in The New England Quarterly. Vol. 37, No. 1 (March 1964): 24-25.
- ^ a b c d e f g Robinson, David. "The Career and Reputation of Christopher Pearse Cranch: An Essay in Biography and Bibliography" in Studies in the American Renaissance. 1978: 455.
- ^ "Death of Christopher Pearse Cranch, Painter". Boston Evening Transcript. January 20, 1892. p. 8. Retrieved March 7, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
Further reading
- The Life And Letters Of Christopher Pearse Cranch: By His Daughter Lenora Cranch Scott (1917)
- Stula, Nancy, with Barbara Novak and David M. Robinson, At Home and Abroad: The Transcendental Landscapes of Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892), New London: Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 2007