Curtis Hidden Page
Curtis Hidden Page (April 4, 1870 – December 12, 1946) was a United States educator and writer.
Biography
[edit]Curtis Hidden Page was born in Greenwood, Missouri.[1] He graduated from Harvard University, where in 1890 he became the first recipient of the George B. Sohier Prize for literature. He held teaching positions in French and English at Harvard University (1893–1908), Columbia University (1908–1909), Northwestern University (professor of English literature, 1909–1911), and Dartmouth College (professor of English literature, 1911–1946).[2]
Page was elected to the New Hampshire state legislature in 1933 and again in 1939.[2]
Compiler of anthologies of verse such as British Poets of the Nineteenth Century and The Chief American Poets,[1] Page also published verses, essays, and stories in numerous periodicals. In 1906, writing of his activities to his fellow Harvard alumni, he stated: "I have two volumes of verse nearly ready, but find little time to give to completing them and doubt if they will be published until after I am dead!"[3]
Page also translated many French works, including A Voyage to the Moon, by Cyrano de Bergerac and The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife by Anatole France. He published a well-regarded[4] translation of eight plays by Molière in 1908; of these, Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite is available online from Project Gutenberg.
He died in Laconia, New Hampshire on December 12, 1946.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Hamersly, Lewis Randolph; Leonard, John W.; Mohr, William Frederick; Knox, Herman Warren; Holmes, Frank R.; Downs, Winfield Scott (1907). Leonard, John W. (ed.). Who's Who in New York City and State (3rd ed.). New York: L.R. Hamersly. p. 1008. Retrieved May 11, 2025 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Curtis Hidden Page: An Inventory of His Papers in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center". University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original on March 1, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2025.
- ^ "Harvard College, Class of 1891, Secretary's Report, Vol. IV," Printed for the Use of the Class, 1906, p. 168. 1906. Retrieved June 27, 2010.
- ^ Donald M. Frame in the introduction to his own Molière translation writes: "Curtis Hidden Page has translated eight well-chosen plays (Putnam, 1908, 2 vols.) which include three verse comedies done into unrhymed verse. Though it sometimes lacks sparkle, his version is always intelligent and responsible." (--Donald M. Frame, trans., Tartuffe and Other Plays by Molière, NY: Signet, 1967, ISBN 0-451-53033-0, p. xiii.)
- ^ "Dr. Curtis H. Page". The New York Times. Laconia, New Hampshire (published December 13, 1946). AP. December 12, 1946. p. 23. Retrieved May 1, 2025 – via Internet Archive.
External links
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- Works by Curtis Hidden Page at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Curtis Hidden Page at the Internet Archive
- Works by Curtis Hidden Page at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Finding aid to Curtis Hidden Page papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
- Curtis Hidden Page Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
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- 1870 births
- 1946 deaths
- Members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
- American translators
- French–English translators
- Harvard University alumni
- Harvard University faculty
- Columbia University faculty
- Dartmouth College faculty
- Northwestern University faculty
- People from Greenwood, Missouri
- 20th-century members of the New Hampshire General Court