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Story, William Wetmore
Story, William Wetmore (1819–95),son of Joseph Story, graduated from Harvard (1838) and followed a legal career varied by his avocations of sculpture and literature, indicated in his Poems (1847). From 1847 he devoted his time to sculpture and spent most of his life in Rome, where he was influenced by sentimental neoclassicism. His Cleopatra and Medea, the former described at length in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, are representative of his choice of subjects, to which he gave plastic expression in a smooth, cool, but rather lifeless form. His books on Italy include Roba di Roma (1862), Vallombrosa (1881), Fiammetta: A Summer Idyl (1886), and Excursions in Art and Letters (1891). Graffiti d'Italia (1868), a book of poems, shows the influence of his friend Browning. He edited the Life and Letters (2 vols., 1851) and Miscellaneous Writings (1852) of his father. Henry James wrote William Wetmore Story and His Friends (2 vols., 1903).
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Story, William Wetmore." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Story, William Wetmore." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-StoryWilliamWetmore.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Story, William Wetmore." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-StoryWilliamWetmore.html |
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