Gifford Pinchot
American forester and politician (1865-1946)
Joyce Kilmer
American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier
Alfred Joyce Kilmerwas an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled “Trees” (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor.
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Alfred Joyce Kilmerwas an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled “Trees”and Hilaire Bellocin 1917. He was killed by a sniper’s bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. He was married to Aline Murray, also an accomplished poet and author, with whom he had five children.
While most of his works are largely unknown today, a select few of his poems remain popular and are published frequently in anthologies. Several critics–including both Kilmer’s contemporaries and modern scholars–have dismissed Kilmer’s work as being too simple and overly sentimental, and suggested that his style was far too traditional, even archaic. Many writers, including notably Ogden Nash, have parodied Kilmer’s work and style–as attested by the many imitations of “Trees.”