Arlo Bates

Arlo Bates (1850–1918) was an American novelist, poet and teacher, born at East Machias, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin College. He edited the Boston Sunday Courier from 1880 and later became professor of English literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

His verse includes Berries of the Brier (1886), Sonnets in Shadow (1887), A Poet and His Self (1891), Told in the Gate (1892) and The Torch-Bearers (1894).