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Clarence Victor Stahl
1885–1973
Best remembered for a 1915 poetry collection centered on the Titanic disaster, this early-20th-century poet also published dramatic verse and spent much of his working life in newspaper printing and editing.
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The sinking of the Titanic, and other poems
by Clarence Victor Stahl
About the author
Clarence Victor Stahl was an American poet born in 1885. Library catalogs and Project Gutenberg records connect him with The Sinking of the Titanic, and Other Poems (1915), a collection that helped preserve his name, and with Zorabella; A Poetic Tragedy, in Five Acts.
A surviving memorial notice describes him as the founder and former editor of the Wood River Press and a former printer for the Alton Evening Telegraph. That background fits the strongly literary but practical world around his writing: he seems to have been both a working newspaperman and a poet.
He died in 1973 in St. Louis, Missouri. Reliable biographical details beyond his publications and newspaper work are limited, so much of his life remains only lightly documented online.