author
Clinton Scollard
1860–1932
A prolific American poet, teacher, and travel writer, he was known for graceful, lyrical verse and a lifelong connection to Hamilton College. His work reflects a love of landscape, romance, and literary tradition.
3 Audiobooks
Sprays of Shamrock
by Clinton Scollard
From the Lips of the Sea
by Clinton Scollard
Lyrics & Legends of Christmas-Tide
by Clinton Scollard
About the author
Born in Clinton, New York, on September 18, 1860, Clinton Scollard studied at the Clinton Liberal Institute, graduated from Hamilton College in 1881, and continued his education at Harvard and at Cambridge in England. He went on to become a professor of English at Hamilton, where he taught in the late 1880s and 1890s and again later in his career.
Scollard published poetry steadily for decades and was regarded as a notably prolific writer. Along with verse, he also wrote fiction, travel pieces, and literary essays. His poetry is often remembered for its musical style, its romantic spirit, and its fondness for nature and old-world settings.
He married poet and critic Jessie B. Rittenhouse, linking him with another important literary figure of his time. Scollard died in 1932, but he remains an interesting representative of American literary life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: a college professor, widely published poet, and man of letters whose career bridged the classroom and the literary world.