Introduction

Biography

Charles was the son of The­o­phil­us Bak­er Stork and Han­nah Wharton, and hus­band of Elis­a­beth Von Pau­sing­er.

He gra­du­at­ed from Ha­ver­ford Col­lege and of Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty.

As of 1909, He was an in­struct­or in the Eng­lish De­part­ment of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­van­ia.

He sur­vived the 1939 sink­ing of the SS Ath­en­ia by a Ger­man sub­mar­ine in the At­lan­tic Ocean.

Works

• Day Dreams of Greece, 1909
• The Queen of Or­plede, 1910
• Sea and Bay: A Po­em of New Eng­land, 1916
• The Mas­ter of Pal­my­ra
• Anthology of Swed­ish Ly­rics, 1750–1915 (New York: Am­er­ican-Scan­di­na­vi­an Foun­da­tion, 1917)
• Sweden’s Lau­re­ate: Se­lect­ed Po­ems of Ver­ner Von Hei­den­stam, 1919
• The Charles Men, Part Two, 1920
• The Dra­gon and the For­eign Devils, 1928
• Gustaf Fröd­ing: Se­lect­ed Po­ems Trans­lat­ed from the Swed­ish
• The Lyr­ic­al Po­em of Hu­go Von Hof­manns­thal