William Roscoe Thayer

William Roscoe Thayer (1859–1923) was born at Boston, graduated from Harvard, and taught English there for several years. From 1892 he edited The Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, and he became a historian of modern Italy.

His verse includes The Confession of Hermes, and Other Poems (1884) and Poems, New and Old (1894); he published some of it under the name Paul Hermes.