Howard Pyle

Howard Pyle (March 5th 1853 - November 9th 1911) is an American illustrator and writer of works intended for youth. Native of Wilmington in the Delaware, it spends the last years of his life to Florence in Italy.

In 1894 he teaches the illustration in Drexel Institute off Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University), after 1900 he founds a school where studied Olive Rush and Newell Convers Wyeth. He also teaches with the Brandywine School, and has like pupils Maxfield Parrish, Frank Schoonover, and Jessie Wilcox Smith.

Its traditional The Merry Adventures off Robin Hood , and its other publications, often inspired by the topics of the the Middle Ages, whose work in four volumes on the King Arthur affirmed his reputation. In 1888 he wrote an original work, Otto off the Silver Hand . He also illustrated historical texts and novels of adventure in the magazines Harper' S Weekly and St Nicholas Magazine . Its Hommes of iron was the subject of a film in 1954, The Black Shield off Falworth .

Robin of Wood

The Merry Adventures off Robin Hood is the variation by Pyle of the legends and ballades of Robin of Wood. It edulcorated them to make them acceptable to the young assistantship which it aimed: for example in the ballade Robin Hood' S Progress to Nottingham , where the ballade indicates that Robin killed fourteen foresters not to pay a debt, Pyle adds that they initially threatened it, and that it did nothing but be defended.

External bonds

  • site with the biography of Pyle and the tales of Robin of Wood
  • etexte of Twilightland

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