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Arthur Wheelock Upson (January 10, 1877 - August 14, 1908) was an American poet. He was born in Camden, New York on January 10, 1877 to Spencer Johnson Upson and Julia Claflin. His family moved from New York to Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1894, with Upson entering the University of Minnesota with the class of 1898. There, he served as editor of the campus newspaper, the Minnesota Daily. Unable to complete the requirements for a degree due to his ill health, he was later awarded a degree in 1906 due to his literary success, becoming an instructor there the same year. Upson reworked the song "Hail! Minnesota", at the request of the school's president Cyrus Northrop, the song later becoming the state song of Minnesota and the alma mater of the University of Minnesota.

Upson died at age 31, drowning after falling from his boat in Lake Bemidji, Minnesota on August 14, 1908. His body was found after he had been missing for two days. The boat which he fell from had capsized and had lacked one of its oars. It was suspected that Upson's death was a suicide, as he already attempted suicide only three years before. Upson was mourned as having been a highly promising artist, with the young Sinclair Lewis writing an editorial obituary that exalted Upson, comparing him to a Keats or a Chatterton. His collected poems, edited with an introduction by fellow poet Richard Burton, were published in 1908. Burton also published "an elegy on the death" of Upson in 1910 entitled a Midsummer Memory.

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Total Books: 21
Accounting and Costing AnsBk
Accounting and Costing Ansbk [Success in] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780719538360
ISBN-10: 071953836X
Genre: Children's Books
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Accounting and Costing
Accounting and Costing [Success in] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780719538353
ISBN-10: 0719538351
Genres: Business & Money, Children's Books, Reference
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At The Sign Of The Harp
At the Sign of the Harp (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781245425605
ISBN-10: 1245425609
Genre: History
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The City A Poem Drama  And Other Poems
The City a Poem Drama and Other Poems (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781141819942
ISBN-10: 1141819945
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The City a Poem Drama and Other Poems
The City a Poem Drama and Other Poems (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781151976086
ISBN-10: 1151976083
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The Collected Poems of Arthur Upson
The Collected Poems of Arthur Upson [1909] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780217889193
ISBN-10: 0217889190
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The Collected Poems of Arthur Upson At the Sign of the Harp  Westwind Songs  Octaves in an Oxford Garden  the City  Sonnets
The Collected Poems Of Arthur Upson V1
The Collected Poems of Arthur Upson V1 [1909] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781437306361
ISBN-10: 1437306365
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Octaves In An Oxford Garden
Octaves in an Oxford Garden [1902] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781104198091
ISBN-10: 1104198096
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Poems
Poems (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781141608331
ISBN-10: 1141608332
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Poems By Arthur Upson And George Norton Northrop
Poems By Arthur Upson and George Norton Northrop (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780548460238
ISBN-10: 054846023X
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Sonnets And Songs By Arthur Upson
Sonnets and Songs By Arthur Upson [1911] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780548882870
ISBN-10: 0548882878
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Success in Management Accounting An Introduction
Success in Management Accounting an Introduction [Success Studybooks] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780719550348
ISBN-10: 0719550343
Genre: Engineering & Transportation
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The Tides Of Spring And Other Poems
The Tides of Spring and Other Poems [1907] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781104403539
ISBN-10: 1104403536
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Westwind Songs
Westwind Songs (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780548463895
ISBN-10: 0548463891
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