Thomas Thackeray Swinburne
Thomas Thackeray Swinburne (April 21, 1865 – December 17, 1926) was an American poet from Rochester, New York. He has been called "Rochester's poet laureate"[1] He wrote a number of books of verse which he printed himself; one of these—By the Genesee: Rhymes and Verses—contains a version of the poem which has become the alma mater of the University of Rochester[2] – The Genesee.[3]
Swinburne attended the University of Rochester as a member of the class of 1892, but never graduated.[4] He was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity.[5]
One critic compared Swinburne and Rochester in Song and Verse to Edgar Lee Masters and his Spoon River Anthology.[6]
In 1926, distraught over the death of his sister Rose, to whom he had dedicated By the Genesee and Rochester in Song and Verse, he committed suicide by jumping from a bridge into the Genesee River.[4][7]
The University of Rochester and the Rochester community honored Swinburne with a memorial, Swinburne Rock, placed "beside the Genesee" near the University's Interfaith Chapel. The memorial, proposed in 1927 and dedicated in 1933, is a 26 ton glacial boulder holding a bronze plaque with verses from The Genesee sculpted by Alphonse A. Kolb.[6][8][9]
Books
- By the Genesee: Rhymes and Verses (1900)
- St. Peter's Chimes & Bells of St. Peter (1902)
- Rochester Rhymes (1907)
- The Steingod: A Tale of Halloween (1908)
- Sonnets of Sonnenberg (1911)
- Rochester in Song and Verse, with Other Rhymes (1924)
- The Cosmies: A Little Science for Little People
- Cascónchiagón (one sheet, illustrated by Thomas Davies)
References
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