Arthur Davison Ficke was a poet, dramatist, art critic, and lawyer from Davenport, Iowa. He graduated from Harvard in 1904, and earned a law degree from Iowa State University in 1907. While practicing law, he still found time to publish his work, including From the Isles: A Series of Songs Out of Greece (1907), The Happy Princess and Other Poems (1907), Mountain against Mountain (1929), and Tumultuous Shore and Other Poems (1942), among others. Ficke also served in the United States Army during World War I and was discharged in 1919. He moved to New York City in 1923 and devoted the rest of his life to writing.
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