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Holman Francis Day
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I lived from 1865-1935.
I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.
Holman Francis Day, novelist, poet, journalist and filmmaker was born, November 6, 1865 in Vassalboro, Maine and died February 19, 1935, in Mill Valley, California. In 1887 Day graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine and began working for several newspapers in Maine and Massachusetts, eventually becoming managing editor of the Lewiston Daily Sun. In 1901 Day was appointed military secretary by Governor John F. Hill and remained at that post until 1904.
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Holman Day's first book, Up in Maine (1901), was a financially successful collections of verse based upon his home state, and was said to have gone from, “edition to edition in a sale unparalleled by any volume of verse in many years.”1 Later, Day turned to writing successful novels, and in 1920 founded the short-lived, Holman Day Productions based in Augusta, Maine which produced mainly movie shorts based on his writings.
Day's writing style was folksy and humorous, and "...express with a plain, common-sense felicity the characteristics and life of the rural folks in Maine..." 2 His novels and poetry of the Maine woods marked him as one of the leading interpreters of Maine and one of its most well-known authors of the early twentieth century.
Day moved to California around 1920 and died in San Francisco in 1935 at the age of 69.
Holman Day wrote over 300 short stories, many poems, and more than 25 books including: Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse (1900), Squire Phin (1905), King Spruce (1908),The Ramrodders: A Novel (1910) and The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot (1915.)
Notes:
1. The Maine Book by Henry E. Dunnack, 1920
2. Poets New and Old by Joel Benton in New York Times , August 2, 1902
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Reference Sources:
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, Editors: George Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger, Harper Collins Publishers, 1991 (ISBN:0-06-270027-8)
My poetry
The clash and the clatter of mowing-machines
Float up where the old man stands and leans
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Oh, we're getting under cover, for the "sport" is on the way,
—Pockets bulge with ammunition, and he's coming down to slay:
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Take a chair by the fireplace, mister. Pull up, s'r, pull up to the blaze!
Cheerfuler some than an air-tight, hey? Too many air-tigh
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Cheerful crab was that old Posh,
---Warn't afflicted much with dosh,
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I've joined the orders that came our way,
- Been sort of a "jiner," as one would say, -
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Hear the chorus in that tie-up, runch, ger-
runch, and runch and runch!
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