Madeline Mason-Manheim
Madeline Mason-Manheim (also known by the pseudonym Tyler Mason)[1] (1908-1990) was an American poet and translator.[2] Her work was also published under the names Madeline Mason and Tyler Mason.[3][4][5] She was married to the outsider artist and novelist Malcolm McKesson.
Early life[edit]
Mason-Manheim was born into a socially prominent family[6] in New York on January 24, 1908 (though some sources list her year of birth as 1902 or 1905).
Career and social life[edit]
Her first collection of poetry, Hill Fragments, was published in 1925, and featured an introduction from Arthur Symons, as well as illustrations by Kahlil Gibran.[7] She continued her association with Gibran by translating his work The Prophet into French; this translation was published in 1926.[3]
In the 1930s, Mason-Manheim was a regular in the "Social" pages of the New York Times[8][9][10]
In 1942, Mason-Manheim married Malcolm McKesson, whom she had met at a debutante ball. McKesson claimed that the union was never consummated; however, the pair remained married until Mason-Manheim's death in 1990.[11]
Mason-Manheim wrote The Cage of Years, which was published in 1949. The work featured illustrations by Theodore Conrath and is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[12]
Mason-Manheim devised the "Mason sonnet" in 1953. This poetic form is composed of fourteen lines, divided into an octave and a sestet, with the pivot coming after the octave. The lines are in iambic pentameter, with rhyme scheme ABCABCBC DBADDA.[13]
Death and legacy[edit]
Mason-Manheim's papers are held by the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.[5]
Works[edit]
- Mason-Manheim, Madeline. Hill Fragments. London: Cecil Palmer (1925).
- Mason, Tyler and Edward M. House. Riding for Texas. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock (1936).
- Mason, Madeline. The Cage of Years. New York: The Bond Wheelright Company (1949).
Further reading[edit]
- Poetry, 27(4), 227-227. (1926). Retrieved December 1, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20575380
References[edit]
- ^ Alexander, Bob; Brice, Donaly E. (15 July 2017). Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy. University of North Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-57441-691-6. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ "Mason, Madeline 1908-1990". Retrieved 8 August 2020.
- ^ a b Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov.
- ^ "The Prophet's Earliest European Translations: German (1925) and French (1926)". www.kahlilgibran.com.
- ^ a b "Madeline Mason Papers, 1867-1992". Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "Malcolm McKesson, 1909-1999". Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "Hill Fragments". Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "HONORS LADY BENN AND HER DAUGHTER". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "HONORS GENERAL HALLER". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "STANISLAW PATEK HONORED AT PARTY". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ Isaacs, Deanna (29 May 1997). "Art People: Malcolm McKesson's passionate repression". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ "Object Details: The Cage of Years". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ Eberhart, Lawrence. "Mason Sonnet – Every Sonnet".
External links[edit]
- A letter from Madeline Mason-Manheim to Hamlin Garland, on behalf the Tolstoy Society, in the collection of the University of South California Libraries.
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