MOODY, WILLIAM VAUGHN (1869-1910), American poet and
playwright, was born at Spencer, Ind., July 8 1869. He was
educated at Harvard (A.B. 1893; A.M. 1894) and was assistant
in English there 1894-5. From 1895 to 1907 he was at the
university of Chicago as instructor and, after 1901, as assistant
professor. He died at Colorado Springs Oct. 17 1910. He was
the author of The Masque of Judgment (1900); Poems (1901); The Fire-Bringer (1904, intended as the first member of a trilogy on the Promethean theme, of which The Masque of Judgment, already published, was the second member); The Great Divide (1907) and The Faith Healer (1909). Of these the last two were prose dramas and were very successful on the stage, especially the first. He compiled (with Robert M. Lovett) A First View of English and American Literature (1902), and edited The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton (1899, Cambridge ed.) and (with George Cabot Lodge and John Ellerton Lodge) The Poems of Trumbull Stickney (1905).