Articles on George Sterling
“You must have been hard pressed the other day. The wolves of life so close upon your heel- Tired...Oh tired in a hopeless way, Too...”
“I have been asked by the editors of Overland to contribute to the number dedicated to George Sterling. And sitting down gladly to what promised...”
“Has George Sterling been subjected to that thing he dreaded, misrepresentation? Often he said of others gone before him, "It is not the first time...”
“Probably no writer ever keeps his work wholly consistent to the medium to which his hand is most subdued. He must, if only to validate...”
“(Suggested by a strange communication received from a total stranger, purporting to come from George Sterling a few days after the latter's death.) Break you the...”
“In youth he loved the sweep of all the winds That called and urged swift tumult in the skies, He dreamed of them from strange...”
“It is easy, after a man is dead, to remember what he was and what he did, and it is easy to forget what he...”
“George Sterling and I were friends for about thirty years and, of all the charming memories that I possess, the picture of him as he...”
“George Sterling and I were friends for about thirty years and, of all the charming memories that I possess, the picture of him as he...”
“Why should he stay until no longer eager feet Spurt white sand over dune flowers as he runs? Why should...”
“Drunkard of life as any bee of sweets, Lover of the swift race, the good battle Of man against nature, Man against fate, Full-hearted lover...”
George Sterling’s Bohemian Creed
“"Pard like spirit, beautiful and swift: Love in desolation masked." Shelley spoke thus of himself, and every word is true of Sterling, too. In the...”
Review of: THE THRIST OF SATAN
“THE THRIST OF SATAN, "Poems of fantasy and terror," by George Sterling," Edited by S.T. Joshi, Hippocampus Press, ISBN 0-9721644-6-4 "...I am not sure that poetry...”
Deep-Sea Matrimony: George Sterling’s Abalone Song Stretches Back More than a Century
“The expanded version of this article can be found in: Deep-Sea Matrimony: George Sterling and "The Abalone Song," by Geoffrey Dunn. Fall/Winter 2008 edition of...”
George Sterling's 'Wine of Wizardry' sparked a clash of critics
“While many Bay Area literati celebrated the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's Beat masterpiece "On the Road" earlier this year, 2007 also marks the centenary...”
“It has always seemed to me that there were two George Sterlings— the one I saw in the pictures and the one I saw in...”
“He had the body of Mercury and the face of Dante. These externals expressed the inner character of the man. The gay lightsomeness of the...”
“George Sterling was a rare and exquisite poet whose work is an imperishable part of the distinguished literary history of California. He always impressed me...”
“In George's poet's garland let me fall upon a little Western flower, a naturally obscure posy in that wreath of his fame. Call it a...”
“Merely the fact that George Sterling was in San Francisco made life in the city somehow better. He was a constant reminder that even here...”
“On this page, commencing with our next issue, George Sterling will talk each month with the readers of the Overland about matters that interest him....”
George Sterling On "The Black Vulture"
“A Student, disagreeing strongly with the professor's interpretation of Sterling's sonnet "The Black Vulture," contended that the vulture was meant to symbolize death. To bring the...”
Book review "Footloose in Arcadia"
“Footloose in Arcadia: A Personal Record of Jack London, George Sterling, Ambrose Bierce. By Joseph Noel. New York: Carrick & Evans, Inc. 1940. 330 pp. $3.00. In a...”
Introduction for "Sonnets to Craig"
“Many strange experiences have been imagined by poets and woven into sonnet sequences; but few of them stranger than the story contained in the metal box which rests...”
George Sterling's Place In Modern Poetry
“During his lifetime, and even more during the years immediately following his death, a genius is seldom likely to receive rational discussion in his own community....”
“And here is George Sterling dead. A poet he: a true Poet. More a gentle, affectionate character with the cheerful heart of a an unselfish...”
George Sterling's Suicide (Poet's Suicide)
“George Sterling committed suicide in 1926, perhaps he wrote close to 14-books in his life time. Some say he committed suicide after becoming sick and...”
Correspondence in 'The New Age' "Letters to the Editor" column
“GEORGE STERLING. Sir,-Perhaps your correspondent will give us some more information about George Sterling, for in these days it's a long, long way to the British Museum. The only...”
“Reproaches have been made that I have neglected to adorn these Notes with the names of American authors unknown as yet to fame. I protest my innocence! Nothing...”
The Man Who Would Have It All: George Sterling and the American Dream
“In what is sometimes called its Pioneer Myth, California has always seemed the ideal venue for the American dream. Even today, loading up a Ryder truck and...”
“Fresh sea food has become a staple of that style of cooking now known as California Cuisine, which emphasizes the kind of fresh ingredients that...”
George and Carrie Sterling and the Havens Family
“Baum In the years you lived in Piedmont, both as Elsie Whitaker and then as Mrs. Xavier Martinez, you met many of the creative people of...”
“I saw a man open an iris petal. He ran his finger underneath the edge, unfolded it, and smoothed it out a little, not as...”
“Below are the five poems Clark Ashton Smith wrote in trbute to his friend and mentor. To George Sterling And I too found...”
George Sterling: poet of the skies
“Though once hailed by Ambrose Bierce as the future "poet of the skies, prophet of the suns," the San Francisco poet George Sterling is no...”
Letters of George Sterling to James Branch Cabell
“The Friendship between George Sterling the prolific but ill-fated San Francisco poet, and James Branch Cabell, the Richmond novelist much in vogue in the 1920's, began...”
“[As the founder and editor of Poetry, Monroe was a key figure in the American "poetry renaissance" that took place in the early twentieth century....”
Intellectual California: A Few of Her Story-Writers, Poets, Painters, Scientists, Historians
“[Markham was an American poet, critic, and protégé of Ambrose Bierce. His best-known poem, "The Man with the Hoe," is typical of his work, exhibiting...”
“[In the following excerpt, the critic reviews The House of Orchids, and Other Poems.] The saying goes that poets are born, not made, but the fact...”
“[In the following excerpt, Hooker praises Sterling's facility as a poet but criticizes the absence in his work of ideas or a philosophy.] Stevenson once said...”
“[In the following excerpt, the critic reviews The Testimony of the Suns, and Other Poems.] In The Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems, by George...”
"George Sterling is nearly forgotten today"
“While many Bay Area literati celebrated the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's Beat masterpiece "On the Road" earlier this year, 2007 also marks the centenary...”
“George Sterling, a poet and author of such volumes as A Wine of Wizardry and Other Poems, was at the locus of a Bohemian...”
"Sterling, George" The Oxford Companion to American Literature
“Sterling, George (1869–1926),born in New York, was educated under Father Tabb in Maryland, went to California, and was thereafter identified with the state as...”
George Sterling: Poet and Friend
“My sixteen years' friendship and correspondence with George Sterling began, like so many human relationships, through another friendship. In 1911, when I had reached the...”
George Sterling - An Appreciation
“Among the various literary fervors and enthusiasms of my early youth, there are two that have not faded as such things most often fade, but...”
Fleeing flames and ruins to Carmel colony
“WRITERS AND ARTISTS LEFT SAN FRANCISCO IN 1906 FOR A NEW LIFE One hundred years ago, a small group of artists, writers and other self-described bohemians...”
George Sterling--As I Knew Him
“"Aldebran and Mars,—Ask Greek." I find the penciled note, laid weeks ago on the writing table in Jack London's workroom. It is one of many...”