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Charles Erskine Scott Wood C.E.S. Wood was a writer, poet, soldier, corporate lawyer, and a lover of books. He was a founder of Portland's Public Library and the Portland Art Museum. A self-proclaimed anarchist, he was a regular contributor to radical journals of the day. Notable Oregonians: Charles Erskine Scott Wood—Soldier/Attorney/Writer C.E.S. Wood (1852-1944) Charles Erskine Scott Wood The
Pursuit and Capture of Chief Joseph Portland
Radical History Tour Poems ["Sunrise"]
["The Poet in the
Desert"] Charles Erskine Scott Wood, A Masque of Love (Chicago: Walter M. Hill, 1904) [online text] ______________________, The Beggar at the Gate (Portland, Oregon: F.W. Baltes & Co., 1913) ______________________, How Christ Spent His Christmas: A Poem with a Prologue (Portland, Oregon, 1914) ______________________, The Poet in the Desert (Portland, Oregon, 1915)(Portland, Oregon: Press of F. W. Baltes and Company, new ed., 1918)(New York: Vanguard Press, 1929) [online text] ______________________, Maia. A Sonnet Sequence (Portland, Oregon: Charles Wood, 1915)(Portland, Oregon: Printed for the author, F.W. Baltes and Company, 1918) ______________________, Sonnets Throughout Aye Many Years Begot of Introspective Sense and Love for Kith and Kin (Portland, Maine: privately printed, 1918) ______________________, Poems From the Range (San Francisco: Lantern Press, Gelber-Lilienthal, Inc., 1929) ______________________, Selected Poems (San Francisco: Priv. print. at Grabhorn Press, 1937 (with Sara Bard Field) ______________________, Sonnets to Sappho (San Francisco: Printed by E. and R. Grabhorn, 1939) ______________________, Collected Poems (New York: Vanguard Press, 1949)(foreword by Sara Bard Field; introd. by William Rose Benét) ______________________, Debs Has Visitors in Jail (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Oriole Press, 1964) Poetry Anthologies Charles Erskine Scott Wood, "Eden," "Give All," and "Goats," in William Stanley Braithwaite (ed.), Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1926 and Yearbook of American Poetry 485-487 (Boston: B.J. Brimmer Company, 1926) Journals C. E. S. Wood, Private Journal, 1878, 70 Oregon Historical Quarterly 5-38 (1969) ____________, Private Journal, 1879, 70 Oregon Historical Quarterly 139-170 (1969) Writings Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Imperialism vs. Democracy (New York: Evening Post Job Print, 1899)("address delivered at the Jefferson birthday dinner at Portland, Ore., April 13, 1899") ______________________, A Book of Tales, Being Some Myths of the North American Indians (Portland, Oregon: McArthur & Wood/Attic Press, 1901)(New York: Vanguard Press, 1929) ______________________, The Legend of King Luke of Brittany (Portland, Oregon, CES Wood, 1912) ______________________, Circe: A Drama with a Prologue (Portland, Oregon, the author, 1919) ______________________, The Woodchild: A Christmas Tale Written for Nancy Honeyman, by her grandfather Charles Erskine Scott Wood (San Francisco: J. H. Nash, 1919) ______________________, The Last Testament of Charles Erskine Scott Wood (Privately published, 1921) [online text] ______________________, Heavenly Discourse (New York: Vanguard, 1927)(New York: Vanguard Press, 1937)(New York: Penguin Books, 1946) ______________________, The Beautiful Wedding (San Francisco: Edwin & Robert Grabhorn, 1929) ______________________, Too Much Government (New York: Vanguard Press, 1931) ______________________, Earthly Discourse (New York: Vanguard Press, 1937) Bibliography
Edwin R. Bingham, et. al, (eds.), Charles Erskine Scott Wood (Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 1990) Erskine Wood, Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood: A Renaissance Man (Vancouver, Washington: Rose Wind Press, 1991)(Erskine Wood is Wood's son) ___________, Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood (privately printed, 1978) Helena Kaye, "Charles Erskine Scott Wood: His Life and Works," Masters thesis, University of Texas, 1937. Bibliography: Articles Edwin R. Bingham, Oregon's Romantic Rebels: John Reed and Charles Erskine Scott Wood, 50 Pacific Northwest Quarterly 77-90 (1959) ______________, Experiment in Launching a Biography: Three Vignettes of Charles Erskine Scott Wood, 35 (3) Huntington Library Quarterly 221-239 (1972) George Venn, Soldier to Advocate; C.E.S. Wood's 1877 Diary of Alaska and the Nez Perce Conflict, 106 (1) Oregon Historical Quarterly (2005) [online text] Research Resources Charles Erskine Scott Wood Papers Sara Bard Field Nan
Wood Honeyman Dorothy Gordon Papers History of the Bench and Bar of Oregon
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