Hermann Hagedorn
Who is Hermann Hagedorn
Hermann Hagedorn (18 July 1882 – 27 July 1964) was an American author, poet and biographer.
He was born in New York City and educated at The Hill School and Harvard University, where he was awarded the George B. Sohier Prize for literature, the University of Berlin, and Columbia University. From 1909 to 1911, he was an instructor in English at Harvard.
Hagedorn was a friend and biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. He also served as Secretary and Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association from 1919 to 1957. Drawing upon his friendship with Roosevelt, Hagedorn was able to elicite the support of Roosevelt's friends and associates' personal recollections in his biography of TR which was first published in 1918 and then updated in 1922 and which is oriented toward children...
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Hermann Hagedorn Poems
- Song Is So Old
Song is so old,
Love is so new-
Let me be still
And kneel to you....
- Prayer During Battle
Lord, in this hour of tumult,
Lord, in this night of fears,
Keep open, oh, keep open
My eyes, my ears....
- Doors
Like a young child who to his mother's door
Runs eager for the welcoming embrace,
And finds the door shut, and with troubled face
Calls and through sobbing calls, and o'er and o'er...
- Departure
My true love from her pillow rose
And wandered down the summer lane.
She left her house to the wind's carouse,
And her chamber wide to the rain....
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- Mr_calvero: "i don’t go so far as to think that the only good indians are dead indians, but i believe nine out of ten are, and i shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth."
see: hermann hagedorn, roosevelt in the bad lands (new york: houghton miff- lin, 1921), 355.
- Cdchyld: new listing vintage children's book we the people by hermann hagedorn 1936 ten dreams of zach peters and how they led him through the constitution
- Flusteredduck: resurrection by hermann hagedorn
- Ancientseas: frank godwin's cover illustration for "book of courage" by hermann hagedorn. 1930.
- Jmpayne12: one of my favorite quotes about tr:
"the story of theodore roosevelt is the story of a small boy who read about great men and decided he wanted to be like them."
- roosevelt biographer hermann hagedorn
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