Charles Wharton Stork (12 February 1881 – 22 May 1971) was an American literary author, poet, and translator.
Early life and education Stork was born in Philadelphia on February 12, 1881 to Theophilus Baker and Hannah (Wharton) Stork. He graduated from Haverford College and Harvard University.
On August 5, 1908, he married Elisabeth von Pausinger, daughter of Franz Xaver von Pausinger, artist, of Salzburg, Austria. They had a daughter, Rosalie (Stork) Regen, and three sons, Francis Wharton, George Frederick, and Carl Alexander. In 1939, Stork was a survivor of the sinking of the SS Athenia in the Atlantic Ocean.
Career Stork taught in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
He wrote poems such as Beauty's Burden, Death - Divination and The Silent Folk. He translated the hymn "We Worship Thee, Almighty Lord" by Johan Olof Wallin, and some of the songs of Carl Michael Bellman.Stork, Charles Wharton. Anthology of Swedish lyrics from 1750 to 1915. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1917. He is known to have disliked modernist literature.
His translations of the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding were harshly criticized in reviews by Svea Bernhard and Ernst W. Olson but generally praised in an article by Axel J. Uppvall, who along with Olson had also rendered Fröding's poems into English.The Poetry Journal, (February 1916), pp. 1-6
Stork and his British contemporary, C. D. Locock, published several volumes of Swedish poetry in translation.Songs and poems from Sweden archive.org. Retrieved: May 23, 2016. Among the authors they covered were Gustaf Fröding, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Birger Sjöberg, and August Strindberg.The National Cyclopedia Of American Biography, (James T. White & Company: Clifton, New Jersey, 1975), Volume 56, pp. 141-142.Who Was Who In Literature, 1906-1934, (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1979) Volume 2, p. 686
Death Stork died in Philadelphia on May 22, 1971.
Works Day Dreams of Greece, 1909 The Queen of Orplede, 1910 Sea and Bay: A Poem of New England, 1916The Book News Monthly, (September 1915 – August 1916), p. 421 Alcibiades, 1967
Translations The Master of Palmyra, dramatic poem, 1914 Gustaf Fröding: Selected Poems Translated from the Swedish, (New York: Macmillan, 1916) Anthology of Swedish Lyrics, 1750-1915 (New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1917) (including some of Carl Michael Bellman Fredman's Epistles, and Fredman's Songs) The Lyrical Poems of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, 1918 Sweden’s Laureate: Selected Poems of Verner Von Heidenstam, 1919 The Charles Men, Pts. 1-2, historical fiction, 1920 Modern Swedish masterpieces, short stories, 1923 The Dragon and the Foreign Devils, non-fiction, 1928 Martin Birck’s Youth, novel, 1930 Short Stories of Hjalmar Söderberg, 1935 Arcadia Borealis, poems of Erik Axel Karlfeldt, 1938 The Tales of Ensign Stål, poems of J. L. Runeberg, 1938 Anthology of Norwegian Lyrics, 1942 A Second Book of Danish Verse, 1947
References
External links
Poetry Foundation: Poems by Charles Wharton Stork