Louise Morgan Sill
Louise Morgan Smith Sill was an American poet, writer, translator, and editor.
Early life and education
Smith was born in Honolulu, and raised in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Morgan Lewis Smith and Louise Genella Smith. Her father was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. At the time of her birth, her father was the United States ambassador to Hawai'i, then an independent kingdom.Career
Sill wrote poems that appeared in several major magazines, including Scribner's and The Atlantic. "Almost everyone writes nowadays," wrote one reviewer of her 1906 collection In Sun and Shade, "but few have written anything very much better in serious poetry than Louise Morgan Sill." She was an editor on the staff of Harper's Magazine from 1905 to 1910. During World War I she worked at a hospital in France. She translated works from French in the 1910s and 1920s, and wrote monthly reports on the Paris art scene for The American Magazine of Art.Publications
- "The 'Flying Dutchman'"
- "Man and Woman"
- "The Canyon of the Colorado"
- "Out of the Shadow" In Sun or Shade
- "The Clue"
- "The Hoof-Beats of the Years"
- "Sunnyfield"
- "The Gossip of an Ambassador"
- "Music"
- "The Cascade"
- "The Old Waman"
- "After Battle"
- Paul Claudel, The Tidings Brought to Mary
- Henry Bordeaux, Guynemer, Knight of the Air
- Charles Marc des Granges, An illustrated history of French literature The Life of Lives; the story of Our Lord Jesus Christ for young people
- "A Garden...There"
- "Time is Not"
- "The Rearranged Luxembourg"
- Ernest Dimnet, The Brontë Sisters The Hell-Gods and Other Poems''
- "Paris: Mother of Students"
- "Paris Notes"