Joyce Kilmer
Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G.
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- Born in
- New Brunswick
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityRutgers UniversityRutgers Preparatory School
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- 🏆 Purple Heart🏆 New Jersey Hall of Fame
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1886
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