George Cabot Lodge

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George Cabot Lodge (1873–1909), nicknamed 'Bay', was an American poet of the late 19th and early-20th century. Born in Boston and named after his great-great-grandfather, the American politician George Cabot, he was the son of famed US senator Henry Cabot Lodge. He began studies at Harvard, and continued them in France and Berlin into his mid-twenties. In 1897, he began work as a secretary to both his father and a Senate committee in Washington. He later served successfully in the Spanish-American War as a navel cadet. He was best known for his delicate sonnets, such as the Song of the Wave, Essex, and Trumbull Stickney (Stickney was a friend and admirer), several of which were anthologized. His style and artistic outlook were deeply effected by the pessimism of Schopenhauer and Giacomo Leopardi, as well as French influences including Baudelaire and Leconte de Lisle. He died near Nantucket in August 1909. A biography, the Life of George Cabot Lodge (1911), was written by his friend and confidant Henry Adams. His collected poems and dramas, in two volumes, were published in 1911 by Houghton Mifflin Company.