William Force Stead

William Force Stead (29 August 1884 – 8 March 1967) was an American diplomat and poet. He became an Anglican clergyman, and chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford from 1927 to 1930.[1] He is best known for his editorial work on Christopher Smart.

He was born in Washington, D.C. and educated at the University of Virginia. He left the U.S. consular service around 1917 and was a student at Queen's College, Oxford, publishing verses in Oxford poetry. He was ordained and spent time in Italy, before returning to Oxford and Worcester College as a Fellow.

Stead was a friend of T. S. Eliot, and close to him at the time of his 1927 religious conversion, baptising him in the Church of England.[1] He returned to an academic position in the US in 1939, and died in Baltimore.

Works
  • Moonflowers (1909)
  • Windflowers (1911)
  • Holy Innocents (1917)
  • Verd Antique (1920)
  • The Sweet Miracle (1922)
  • Wayfaring (1924)
  • Uriel: A Hymn in Praise of Divine Immanence (1933)
  • The Poetry of the Bible (1938) editor
  • Rejoice in the Lamb: a song from Bedlam by Christopher Smart (1939) editor
gollark: I don't remember this happening. But I PRed in anonymization a while back.
gollark: Well, if they don't move it's fine, but the IDs were removed some time back.
gollark: If you want to do something actually usefulish, "FORTRESS", you can trilaterate GPS pings and find anyone who sends them (but not actually uniquely identify them since a few versions back).
gollark: If you have a hidden piston door or something and wireless control I guess it makes sense?
gollark: There are valid reasons to spam arbitrary channels, like when someone had a wireless light controller which worked by just checking channel and reply channel, and I knew *approximately* what those were, and wanted to meddle with their lights. But doing it without a target in mind is just pointless.

See also

Notes
  1. Margaret Mills Harper; Warwick Gould (20 December 2013). Yeats's Mask: Yeats Annual No. 19. Open Book Publishers. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-78374-017-8.
  • William Force Stead Papers. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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