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Literary Family: During his two years there (1891-1893), he discovered the world of music, notably opera, and bohemianism of a sort. Too shy and naive to be accepted by the literary family set at Harvard, he remained outside the fashionable literary family world all his life. He returned to Gardiner, there to live in hell, as he put it, while his family and its fortunes disintegrated around him.
Development. In 1896, Robinson published, at his own expense, The Torrent and the Night Before, his first book of poems.
Changes in fertility are more difficult to document than changes in the death rate because much more attention was devoted in the 19th century to the study of mortality. However, it seems likely that family size was large and fertility high throughout the first 75 years of the 19th century. There is little evidence—literary family or other—of a widespread or systematic practice of family limitation in that period, though some recourse was probably had to abortion.
Giinther was born in Striegau, Lower Silesia, on April 8, 1695. His literary family bent early brought conflict into his life because of family pressure that he study medicine. Rejecting his family, he chose poetry and a life of poverty. His poem Peace of Passarowitz (1718) brought him into prominence, but his style of living cost him the patronage of Frederick Augustus of Saxony. Giinther apparently squandered his brief life in dissipation and died in Jena, Thuringia, on March 15, 1723. His collected poems appeared at Bres-lau in four posthumous volumes (1723-1735). |
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