"America Was Schoolmasters"
Poem
By: Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Date: 1943
Source: Coffin, Robert P. Tristam. "America Was Schoolmasters." Reprinted in Unseen Harvests: A Treasury of Teaching. Claude M. Fuess and Emory B. Basford, eds. New York: Macmillan, 1947, 284–85.
About the Author: Robert P. Tristram Coffin (1892–1955) was born and grew up in Brunswick, Maine, on a saltwater farm. He attended Bowdoin College and Princeton University before going to Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar. He served two years in World War I (1914–1918). Coffin wrote more than forty books and was awarded many honors, including the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his work Strange Holiness. He taught at Wells College from 1921 to 1934 and eventually returned to Bowdoin, where he was Pierce Professor in English from 1934 until his death.
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