William Ellery Leonard: The Professor and the Locomotive-God

Leonard received his B. Harvard University, impressed with Leonard's undergraduate achievements, offered to allow Leonard to study there for a master's degree in one year, instead of the customary two. While studying there, Leonard was offered a temporary position to replace a professor of Latin at Boston University. After graduating from Harvard and completing his temporary professorship, Leonard took a job in a small high school in Plainville, Massachusetts.

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Leonard was awarded with a postgraduate fellowship from Boston University that allowed him to study in a foreign university. He spent two years in Germany on the scholarship. His dissertation was on the influence of Lord Byron on the American poetry movement from to He was recruited by Charles R. Van Hise, whose Wisconsin Idea dictated that research would be a cornerstone of the university.

He befriended graduate student Leonard Bloomfield, with whom he would maintain a lifelong friendship. Leonard published his first book of poems as Sonnets and Poems to little fanfare in Among his prominent students at Wisconsin were literary critic Leslie Fiedler, activist Carl Haessler, poet Marya Zaturenska, activist Mildred Harnack, and poet Clara Leiser, the latter two outspoken opponents of Nazism.

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Over his career Leonard wrote numerous volumes of poetry, the first of which was Sonnets and Poems , a collection regarded as showing emotional intensity as well as psychological depth. He is most remembered, however, for Two Lives , a cycle of sonnets telling the story of his tragic marriage. In his psychological autobiography, The Locomotive-God , he probed his agoraphobia.

Leonard is also known for his many scholarly works, particularly translations of Aesop and Lucretius as well as the epic Beowulf. Leonard suffered from lifelong agoraphobia, which not only kept him confined to the area of his home and university campus but increased with age to the point that, in the last years of his life, he conducted all lectures from his home.

He married Charlotte Freeman, the daughter of his landlord, in The marriage was short-lived, however; she committed suicide on May 4, He is most remembered, however, for Two Lives, a cycle of sonnets telling the story of his tragic marriage. In his psychological autobiography, The Locomotive-God, he probed his agoraphobia. Leonard is also known for his many scholarly works, particularly translations of Aesop and Lucretius as well as the epic Beowulf..

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