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Clyde Walton Hill
undated copy of a photograph Clyce Walton Hill, "a native of Texas, was educated at the University of Texas, where he later taught composition and literature, and at Harvard University, where he specialized in studying lyric poetry with Bliss Perry, then editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and dramatic writing with George Pierce Baker . . . ." [Source: promotion flyer for Shining Trails, which proclaims that the Hill collection of poetry has been "adopted for reading in the public schools of Dallas, Texas . . . ."] According to a The Dallas Morning News article, by A.C. Greene, dated April 14, 1996, Hill was a native of Austin. He moved to Dallas in 1915 and became a lawyer but abandoned his legal work and took up teaching again. "In 1917, he married Louise Oram, whose father had installed the first private telephone in Dallas." Hill's poetry appeared in The Century Magazine, Good Housekeeping Magazine, The Literary Digest, McClure's Magazine, The Buccaneer, The Dallas Morning News, The University of Texas Magazine, and the Year Book of the Poetry Society of Texas. Hill was also one of the organizers of the Texas Poetry Society. Archival material related to Clyde Walton Hill was discovered by Alexander Troup, who made copies of some of the material available to James R. Elkins. Clyde
Walton Hill
Poetry Clyde Walton Hill, Shining Trails (Dallas: Clyde Walton Hill, 1926) Writings Clyde Walton Hill & Frank Reaugh, Prose Sketches to accompany the series of paintings by Frank Reaugh entitled Twenty-four hours with the herd: the text based partly on an earlier sketch by "Hondo" ([Dallas, Tex.?: s.n.], 1934) Clyde Walton Hill, Call of Empire (Dallas: Tardy Publishing, 1936)(historical novel) Research Resources Clyde Walton Hill Papers |
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