Includes the poem. "on a Soldier fallen in the Phillipines"


William Vaughn Moody (July 8, 1869 – October 17, 1910) was a U.S. dramatist and poet.

Author of The Great Divide, first presented under the title of The Sabine Woman at the Garrick Theatre in Chicago on April 12, 1906. Moody's poetic dramas included The Masque of Judgment (1900), The Fire Bringer (1904), and The Death of Eve (left undone at his death).

He taught English at Harvard and Radcliffe until 1895, when he went to Chicago to be assistant professor of English and rhetoric at the University of Chicago.

He received the degree of Litt.D. from Yale in 1908, and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

[edit] Early Death

He died from brain cancer at the age of 41