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Arthur Colton

1868–1943


Arthur Colton (1868–1943) was an American writer, born in Washington, D.C. He studied at Yale, took his doctorate there in 1893, taught English at Yale, and from 1906 was librarian of the University Club of New York.

He published essays and fiction, and one volume of poetry, Harps Hung Up in Babylon (1907).

  1. Harps hung up in Babylon
  2. Let me no more a Mendicant
  3. A Song with a Discord
  4. To Faustine
  5. Phillis and Corydon

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