“Even so comparatively small a group as that comprehended within this volume shows how truly the ballad is the parent stock of all other poetic varieties.”
About Katharine Lee Bates
12 August 1859–28 March 1929
Katharine Lee Bates was born on 12 August 1859 in Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, and died on 28 March 1929 in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Her name is permanently associated with “America the Beautiful,” one of the most familiar and resonant poems in United States culture. Yet the anthem has sometimes obscured the…