ABSTRACT

For a woman known and remembered variously for her “eloquent insistence on cogent proof” (Hollingworth, 1943, p. 157), her “decisions and opinions . . . based on cold facts” (Gates, 1940, p. 10), and “the no-nonsense, analytical workings of her intelligence” (Borland, 1990, p. 163), Leta Stetter Hollingworth’s life was full of poetry. Much has been made of Leta Hollingworth’s poem, “Lone Pine,” written and published in the local paper when she was only 14, because of what it reveals about the author’s precocity and depth of thought, because of the clear insight it provides into her diffi cult and lonely childhood, and because of its clear ties to Leta’s later passion, the study and nurture of highly intelligent children who, Leta recognized, often felt, as she must have, like the lone pine of the poem.