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Harry Hibbard Kemp (December 15, 1883 – August 5, 1960) was an American poet and prose writer of the twentieth century. He was known as (and promoted himself as) the "Vagabond Poet", the "Villon of America", the "Hobo Poet", or the "Tramp Poet",〔Allen Churchill, ''The Improper Bohemians: A Re-Creation of Greenwich Village in Its Heyday'', New York, Dutton, 1959; p. 31.〕 and was a well-known popular literary figure of his era,〔William Brevda, ''Harry Kemp, the Last Bohemian'', Lewisburg, PA, Bucknell University Press, 1986.〕〔Ross Wetzsteon, ''Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village, The American Bohemia, 1910–1960'', New York, Simon and Schuster, 2003; especially pp. 334-45.〕 the "hero of adolescent Americans."〔Margaret Brenman-Gibson, ''Clifford Odets, American Playwright: the Years from 1906 to 1940'', New York, Atheneum, 1981; p. 34.〕 == Life and work == Kemp was born in Youngstown, Ohio, the only son of a candymaker. He was raised by his grandmother, in a house by the local train yards. At the age of seventeen he left home to become a common seaman; after returning to the United States he traveled across the country by riding the rails as a hobo. He later attended the University of Kansas, and while a student he began publishing verse in newspapers and magazines. He spent much of his maturity traveling; he stayed in a number of planned communities for varying lengths of time, then wrote autobiographical novels about his experiences.〔Charles Pierce LeWarne, ''Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885–1915'', Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1975; p. 199.〕 Kemp's ''Tramping on Life: An Autobiographical Narrative'' (1922) was one of the best selling "tramp autobiographies" of the 1900–1939 period.〔John Allen, ''Homelessness in American literature: romanticism, realism, and testimony'', Routledge, 2004. Page 100, "The reception of these texts was mixed. Harry Kemp's ''Tramping on Life'', published in 1922, received exceptionally good reviews and sold very well, but few others had the same success."〕 When not traveling he was a regular denizen of Greenwich Village in New York City and Provincetown on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, where he was associated with the Provincetown Players. There is a street named for him, Harry Kemp Way, in Provincetown. Harry Kemp was also known as the "poet of the dunes." Kemp lived on and off in a shack in the dunes of Provincetown, Cape Cod for a period of about 40 years, and he died there in 1960. A 1934 Kemp poem titled, "The Last Return," was written for the Coast Guard men who steadfastly worked to save the lives of those shipwrecked on Cape Cod's coast. Kemp had a knack for self-promotion, what he called "the Art of Spectacularism,"〔Wetzsteon, p. 335.〕 and early learned to collaborate with and manipulate journalists to attract attention to his work. He spent time in Paris in the early 1920s, along with the more famous members of the Lost Generation. Kemp knew many of the bohemian and progressive literary and cultural figures of his generation, including Elbert Hubbard, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Bernarr MacFadden, Sinclair Lewis, Max Eastman, Eugene O'Neill, Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, E. E. Cummings, and many others.〔Wetzsteon, pp. 60, 119, 138, 166, 190 and ff.〕 Kemp played a role in the first stage production of O'Neill's earliest play, ''Bound East for Cardiff''. Kemp was physically imposing, "Tall, broad-shouldered, and robust,"〔Wetzsteon, p. 334.〕 and gained a reputation as a lover, sometimes of other men's wives; he was involved in various scandals throughout his career. His part in Upton Sinclair's divorce was especially notorious in its day.〔William Brevda, "Love's Coming-of-Age: The Upton Sinclair–Harry Kemp Divorce Scandal," ''North Dakota Quarterly'' Vol. 51 No. 2 (Spring 1983), pp. 59-77.〕 In addition to his original books, Kemp translated a play by Tirso de Molina as ''The Love-Rogue'' (1923), and edited ''The Bronze Treasury'' (1927), "an anthology of 81 obscure English poets." Kemp's views turned somewhat more conservative with age; he rejected leftist and anarchist sympathies and wrote approvingly of Jesus as the "divine hobo" and the "super tramp." Kemp's reputation had declined into obscurity by the time of his death in 1960; but his role in the history of modern American literature and the American Left has brought renewed interest and further publication of his work.〔''Poems in Variety'' (1977), ''Poems for Erato'' (1990), ''Poems for Mnemosyne'' (1993), and other works.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harry Kemp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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