Talk:Ernest Thayer

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Biography?[edit]

The Biography section of this article consists of a short paragraph of actual biographical information, followed by a much-longer disussion of "Casey at the Bat". While, to be sure, Thayer's claim to fame is as author of the poem, one imagines that a Biography section would contain more actual biography. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 13:29, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. More info. from various sources (such as Martin Gardner's excellent American Heritage article and others such as this one for example) can be incorporated. It would no doubt interest readers to know that being a wealthy heir to American Woolen Mills, he signed over the rights to Casey to DeWolf Hopper. Or the fact that while at Harvard, he studied under and was a friend of William James, was one of the editors of the Harvard Lampoon along with George Santayana, and was a classmate and very good friend of Samuel Winslow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:201:4808:4E1D:B9C5:710B:B363:9442 (talk) 03:17, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]