I lived from 1834-1865. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.
George Arnold was born in New York City, New York, June 24 1834. Whilst still an infant his parents moved to Illinois, but he returned to the east and settled at Strawberry Farms, in 1849.
As he showed promise of drawing, he was placed in the studio of a portrait painter in New York; but he soon abandoned the idea of becoming an artist, and went on to literature as a profession.
He became a contributor to "Vanity Fair" and the "Leader", and other periodicals, writing stories such as Froth, How The Course Of True Love Ran Smooth, Why Thomas was Discharged, and Two Against One. He still contributed sketches, and as well art criticisms.
He's best known during his lifetime as the author of the "McArone" papers, which established his reputation as a humorist. These were begun in "Vanity Fair" in 1860, and continued there and in other papers until his death; he was also the author of several biographical works.
During the Civil War Arnold did military duty for a long time at one of the forts on Staten Island.
His poems were collected and edited, with a memoir, by William Winter, appearing in two volumes (1867-1868), afterward consolidated in one.
"The Jolly Old Pedagogue" is his best-known poem. He died November 9, 1865.
As he showed promise of drawing, he was placed in the studio of a portrait painter in New York; but he soon abandoned the idea of becoming an artist, and went on to literature as a profession.
He became a contributor to "Vanity Fair" and the "Leader", and other periodicals, writing stories such as Froth, How The Course Of True Love Ran Smooth, Why Thomas was Discharged, and Two Against One. He still contributed sketches, and as well art criticisms.
He's best known during his lifetime as the author of the "McArone" papers, which established his reputation as a humorist. These were begun in "Vanity Fair" in 1860, and continued there and in other papers until his death; he was also the author of several biographical works.
During the Civil War Arnold did military duty for a long time at one of the forts on Staten Island.
His poems were collected and edited, with a memoir, by William Winter, appearing in two volumes (1867-1868), afterward consolidated in one.
"The Jolly Old Pedagogue" is his best-known poem. He died November 9, 1865.
My poetry
- 'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago,
Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;72 lines - The prime of summer is coming, and with it there comes, to-day,
A thought of another summer, whose garlands have faded away:78 lines - I must away to the wooded hills and vales,
Where broad, slow streams flow cool and silently25 lines, 1 comment - SUMMER Winds, whispering over the rye,
Kissing the roses and hurrying by,60 lines - On bill and field October’s glories fade;
O’er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly;45 lines, 4 comments
