Arlo Bates

The Pagans (1884). By Arlo Bates

Arlo Bates (December 16, 1850 - August 25, 1918) was an American author, educator and newspaperman. Biography: Arlo Bates was born at East Machias, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876. In 1880 Bates became the editor of the Boston Sunday Courier (1880-1893) and afterward became professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1900. List of works: Novels: The Pagans (1884)[3] The Wheel of Fire (1885) The Philistines (1888)[4] Albrecht (1890) The Puritans (1899)[5] Love in a Cloud (1900) Collected Poems: Berries of the Brier (1886) Sonnets in Shadow, (1887) a Poet and his Self (1891) Told in the Gate (1892) The Torchbearers (1894) Under the Beech Tree (1899) Collected Criticisms: Talks on Writing English (1897) Talks on the Study of Literature (1898) The Diary of a Saint (1902) Talks on Teaching Literature (1906) Collected Stories: The Intoxicated Ghost (1908) In 1912 he wrote an introduction to E. P. Whipple's Charles Dickens.