Harold Witter Bynner (1881 – 1968) was an American poet, writer and scholar, known for his long residence in Santa Fe, at what is now the Inn of the Turquoise Bear. 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Santa Fe (Spanish for holy faith) or Santa Fé (Portuguese) is the name of a number of places in the world: United States of America: Santa Fe, the state capital of New Mexico Santa Fe, Florida Santa Fe, Missouri Santa Fe, Tennessee Santa Fe, Texas Rancho Santa Fe, California It...

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and brought up in Brookline, Massachusetts. The Brooklyn Bridge in 1890, seven years after its opening Kings County in New York State Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... Brookline is the name of several places in the United States of America: Brookline, Massachusetts Brookline, New Hampshire There is also Brooklin, Maine and a number of places named Brooklyn. ... State nickname: Bay State Other U.S. States Capital Boston Largest city Boston Governor Mitt Romney (R) Official languages English Area 27,360 km² (44th)  - Land 20,317 km²  - Water 7,043 km² (25. ...

He graduated from Harvard University in 1902. Initially he pursued a career in journalism at McClure's Magazine. He then turned to writing, living in Cornish, New Hampshire until about 1915. Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... McClures or McClures Magazine was a popular United States illustrated monthly magazine at the turn of the 20th century, often compared to the longer-running The Atlantic Monthly. ... Cornish is a town located in Sullivan County, New Hampshire. ...

In 1916 he was one of the perpetrators, with Arthur Davison Ficke, a friend from Harvard, of an elaborate attempted literary hoax. It involved a purported 'Spectrist' school of poets, along the lines of the Imagists, based in Pittsburgh. Spectra, a slim collection, was published under the pseudonyms of Anne Knish (Ficke) and Emanuel Morgan (Bynner). Marjorie Allen Seiffert, writing as Angela Cypher, was roped in to bulk out the 'movement'. Ezra Pound, one of the prime movers of Imagism. ... City nickname: The Steel City Location in the state of Pennsylvania Founded 1758 Mayor Tom Murphy (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 151. ... Spectra is the plural of spectrum. ... A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ...

In early 1917 he with Ficke travelled to Japan, possibly to escape the aftermath of the Spectra affair. It was in any case the most significant poetic exchange between the USA and Japan, until after World War II. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb. ...

He had a short spell in academia in 1918/9, at the University of Berkeley. He then travelled to China, and studied Chinese literature. He subsequently produced many translations from Chinese. His verse showed both Japanese and Chinese influences, but the latter were major. Bynner became more of a modernist, perhaps in consequence, where previously he had been inclined to parody Imagism, and dismiss the orientalist pronouncements with which Ezra Pound was free. The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a prestigious, public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate and its bridge. ... // Ancient texts The Four Books (四书, Sì shū) are The Great Learning, (大学, Dà Xué). The Doctrine of the Golden Mean (中庸, Zhōng Yóng). ... This article focuses on the cultural movement labeled modernism or the modern movement. See also: Modernism (Roman Catholicism) or Modernist Christianity; Modernismo for specific art movement(s) in Spain and Catalonia. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ...

He then settled in Santa Fe, in a steady and acknowledged homosexual relationship. He became a friend of D. H. Lawrence, and travelled with him and Frieda in Mexico; he much later in 1951 wrote on Lawrence, while he and his partner Willard Johnson are portrayed in Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent. Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ... D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, prolific and certainly one of the most controversial English writers of the 20th century, whose body of writings span novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. ...

Works

• An Ode to Harvard and Other Poems (1907)
• Tiger (1913)
• The Little King (1914)
• The New World (1915)
• Iphigenia in Tauris (1916) translator
• Spectra (1916) poems with Arthur Dickson Ficke
• Grenstone Poems (1917) poems
• Pins for Wings
• A Canticle of Pan (1920)
• Roots (1929) poems
• The Jade Mountain (1929) translations from Chinese with Kiang Kang-hu
• Indian Earth (1929) poems
• Guest Book (1935) poems
• Selected Poems (1943)
• The Way of Life, according to Lao Tzu (1944)
• Take Away the Darkness (1947)
• Journey with Genius (1951) memoir of D. H. Lawrence
• New Poems (1960)
• Selected Poems (1978)

References

• The Spectra Hoax (1961) William Jay Smith
• Who Was Witter Bynner? (1995) James Kraft