Arthur Sherburne Hardy

Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847–1930) was an American mathematician, novelist and diplomat, born at Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated at West Point, taught civil engineering at Iowa College and from 1878 to 1893 was professor of mathematics at Dartmouth; he was later United States minister to Persia and then to Greece.

He published Francesca of Rimini, a poem (1878), and novels including But Yet a Woman (1883). Stedman included three of his poems in An American Anthology (1900), from which the poems here are taken.