Trumbull Stickney

Biography

Trumbull Stickney emerged as a gifted American poet whose brief but luminous career reflected a deep apprenticeship in classical studies and a keen sensitivity to the cultural shifts of his day. His verse, at once erudite and searching, offered readers a glimpse of quiet contemplation even as it grappled with the swirl of modern life.

Though his life was cut short, Stickney’s poems and translations left a lasting impression on the literary circles of the early twentieth century, and he is remembered with affection by those who still find in his work a graceful harmony of intellect and feeling.