Ernest Hartsock

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|name=Ernest Hartsock

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|birth_name=Ernest Abner Hartsock

|birth_date={{birth date|1903|5|5}}

|birth_place=Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1930|12|14|1903|5|5}}

|occupation=Poet

|education=Emory University (BA, MA)

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Ernest Abner Hartsock (May 5, 1903 – December 14, 1930) was an American poet of the 1920s.{{cite news|title=ERNEST HARTSOCK, NOTED POET, DIES|newspaper=The Atlanta Constitution|date=December 15, 1930}} He published three volumes of poetry and served as a Professor of Poetics at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia. Suffering from pernicious anemia, Hartsock died on December 14, 1930, at the age of 27.{{cite book|author1-link=John Herbert Roper|last=Roper|first=John Herbert|title=C. Vann Woodward, Southerner|date=1987}}

Early years and education

Hartsock was born on May 5, 1903, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was educated at Boys High School (later Grady High School) in Atlanta and earned BA and MA degrees from Emory University, where he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity.{{cite web |title=Kappa Sigma--Alpha Chapter |url=http://www.kappasigmaemory.com/alumni/index.php |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128091318/http://www.kappasigmaemory.com/alumni/index.php |archivedate=2015-01-28 }} After graduation, he became an instructor at Georgia School of Technology in 1927 before becoming Professor of Poetics at Oglethorpe in 1929, where he taught until his death.

Arts and poetry

Hartsock's volumes of poetry were: Romance and Stardust (1925); Narcissus and Iscariot (1927); and Strange Splendor (1930). In 1929 he was awarded the annual award of excellence by the Poetry Society of America for "Strange Splendor," the first Atlantan to ever be so recognized.{{cite web|title=Ernest Hartsock Papers|date=7 May 2004 |url=http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/hartstock30/|publisher=Emory University}} Hartsock was also founder, owner, and editor of the Bozart Press, a press devoted to the publication of poetry.{{cite book|last=Suddeth|first=Ruth|title=An Atlanta Argosy: An Anthology of Atlanta Poetry|date=1938|url=http://america.net/~davdmock/argosy1.htm|access-date=2014-04-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303001931/http://www.america.net/~davdmock/argosy1.htm|archive-date=2012-03-03|url-status=dead}}

An accomplished musician, Hartsock served as organist for the Palace Theater in Atlanta for four years.{{cite web|title=Ernest Hartsock Papers|date=7 May 2004 |url=http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/hartstock30/|publisher=Emory University}}

Death and legacy

Hartsock died on December 14, 1930, at the age of 27.

A life-size bronze bust of Hartsock by famed sculptor Fritz Zimmer currently resides in the Philip Weltner Library at Oglethorpe University. Another smaller, plaster bust of Hartsock made by Atlanta poet Blossom Tucker is held in the Oglethorpe University Archives.

References

Selected bibliography

Hartosck, E. A. (1922, April). Mysterium. Emory Phoenix, 37(6), 267-268.
Hartosck, E. A. (1922, October). Cadences & Rhymes. Emory Phoenix, 38(1), 17-18.
Hartosck, E. A. (1922, October). The Call Beyond. Emory Phoenix, 38(1), 6.
Hartosck, E. A. (1922, December). Tunes by Pan. Emory Phoenix, 38(3), 124.
Hartosck, E. A. (1923, March). Interesting Contemporary Poets. Emory Phoenix, 38(5), 199-201.
Hartosck, E. A. (1923, October). Doom-bound. Emory Phoenix, 39(1), 12-15.
Hartosck, E. A. (1923, October). Martyrdom. Emory Phoenix, 39(1), 17.
Hartosck, E. A. (1924, April). Chanson d'Ennui--(To J. H.). Emory Phoenix, 39(6), 242.
Hartosck, E. A. (1924, April). Exchange Department. Emory Phoenix, 39(6), 252-254.
Hartosck, E. A. (1924, April). A Pastel. Emory Phoenix, 39(6), 254.
Hartosck, E. A. (1924, April). Perspective. Emory Phoenix, 39(6), 244.
Hartosck, E. A. (1924, April). Quatrain, on Fate. Emory Phoenix, 39(6), 229.
Hartosck, E. A. (1924, April). Shadows. Emory Phoenix, 39(6), 233.
Hartosck, E. A. (1924, April). Spring Song. Emory Phoenix, 39(6), 219.
Hartosck, E. A. (1924, December). Frank and Ernest Editorials. Emory Phoenix, 40(3), 78-79.
Hartosck, E. A. (1924, December). The Harbor Lighter. Emory Phoenix, 40(3), 108.
Hartosck, E. A. (1924, December). Isabel Whitsted. Emory Phoenix, 40(3), 89-91.
Hartosck, E. A. (1924, December). Quatrain, on Guilt. Emory Phoenix, 40(3), 86.
Hartosck, E. A. (1924, December). Rainbow Gold. Emory Phoenix, 40(3), 73.
Hartsock, E. A. (1925). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZtnQF35h8OgC Romance and stardust]. Saugus, MA: CAA Parker.
Hartosck, E. A. (1925, October–November). Amaryllis. Emory Phoenix, 41(1), 28.
Hartosck, E. A. (1925, October–November). Ernest Talks. Emory Phoenix, 41(1), 11-13.
Hartosck, E. A. (1925, October–November). Florida Sketches. Emory Phoenix, 41(1), 4.
Hartosck, E. A. (1925, December). Certainty. Emory Phoenix, 41(2), 29.
Hartosck, E. A. (1925, December). Dream by Moonlight. Emory Phoenix, 41(2), 24.
Hartosck, E. A. (1925, December). Ernest Talks. Emory Phoenix, 41(2), 11-13.
Hartosck, E. A. (1925, December). For a Dead Love. Emory Phoenix, 41(2), 10. [Poem signed E. H.]
Hartosck, E. A. (1925, December). Vampire. Emory Phoenix, 41(2), 6.
Hartosck, E. A. (1926, January–February). Epitaph for Job. Emory Phoenix, 41(3), 27.
Hartosck, E. A. (1926, January–February). Ernest Talks. Emory Phoenix, 41(3), 12-16.
Hartosck, E. A. (1926, January–February). To a Friend. Emory Phoenix, 41(3), 20.
Hartosck, E. A. (1926, April). Epitaph for Nero. Emory Phoenix, 41(5), 6.
Hartosck, E. A. (1926, April). Ernest Talks. Emory Phoenix, 41(5), 14-16.
Hartosck, E. A. (1926, April). God, the Soviet. Emory Phoenix, 41(5), 13.
Hartosck, E. A. (1926, April). Philosophy. Emory Phoenix, 41(5), 24.
Hartosck, E. A. (1926, May). Epitaph for Chaucer's Prioress. Emory Phoenix, 41(6), 17.
Hartosck, E. A. (1926, May). Epitaph for Falstaff. Emory Phoenix, 41(6), 28.
Hartosck, E. A. (1926, May). The Heard Silence. Emory Phoenix, 41(6), 13.
Hartsock, E. A. (1926, December). Star Birth. Emory Phoenix, 41(2), 10.
Hartsock, E. A. (1926, December). Review of Touch and Go. Emory Phoenix, 41(2), 33-34.
Hartsock, E. A. (1927). Narcissus and Iscariot. Atlanta, GA: Bozart Press.
Hartsock, E. A. (1928). The future of poetry. In L. Trent, R. Cheyney, & B. Musser (Eds.), How to profit from that impulse: A symposium on contemporary poetic practice and the creative process (p. 25). New York, NY: Dean & Company.
Hartsock, E. A. (1928, February). [https://ia804500.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/24/items/sim_opportunity-a-journal-of-negro-life_1928-02_6_2/sim_opportunity-a-journal-of-negro-life_1928-02_6_2_jp2.zip&file=sim_opportunity-a-journal-of-negro-life_1928-02_6_2_jp2/sim_opportunity-a-journal-of-negro-life_1928-02_6_2_0019.jp2&id=sim_opportunity-a-journal-of-negro-life_1928-02_6_2&scale=4&rotate=0 Advent]. Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 50.
Hartsock, E. A. (1928, July). [https://ia904507.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/8/items/sim_opportunity-a-journal-of-negro-life_1928-07_6_7/sim_opportunity-a-journal-of-negro-life_1928-07_6_7_jp2.zip&file=sim_opportunity-a-journal-of-negro-life_1928-07_6_7_jp2/sim_opportunity-a-journal-of-negro-life_1928-07_6_7_0018.jp2&id=sim_opportunity-a-journal-of-negro-life_1928-07_6_7&scale=2&rotate=0 Plus Ultra]. Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 209.
Hartsock, E. A. (1928, October 3). Literary Epitaphs [For Mr. Babbitt; For (Mr. Erskine's) Galahad; For Elmer Gantry, Jr.]. Nation, 127(3300), 321.
Hartsock, E. A. (1928, December). [https://ia804506.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/8/items/sim_opportunity-a-journal-of-negro-life_1928-12_6_12/sim_opportunity-a-journal-of-negro-life_1928-12_6_12_jp2.zip&file=sim_opportunity-a-journal-of-negro-life_1928-12_6_12_jp2/sim_opportunity-a-journal-of-negro-life_1928-12_6_12_0006.jp2&id=sim_opportunity-a-journal-of-negro-life_1928-12_6_12&scale=4&rotate=0 Foolish Virgins]. Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 361.
Hartsock, E. A. (1929). Madonna in Flanders. In Graham, Marcus (Ed.), An Anthology of Revolutionary Poetry. New York, NY: Active Press, Inc.
Hartsock, E. A. (1929, February). In defense of punning. American Speech, 4(3), 224-227.
Hartsock, E. A. (1929, July). Roses in the desert: A view of contemporary southern verse. Sewanee Review, 37(3), 328-338.
Hartsock, E. A. (1929, November). Two Sonnets. Voices, 50, 185.
Hartsock, E. A. (1930). Strange splendor. Atlanta, GA: Bozart Press.
Hartosck, E. A. (1931). Warning to poets. The Personalist, 12(3), 165.

External links

Emory University's [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8zdrg Ernest Hartsock papers, 1921-1931]
Atlanta History Center's [http://ahc.galileo.usg.edu/ahc/view?docId=ead/ahc.MSS146f-ead.xml Ernest Hartsock letters]