Mifflin, Lloyd, 1846-1921

Painter and poet.

Lloyd Mifflin was an author, poet, and painter from Columbia, Pa. He was born on Sept. 15, 1846 to Elibeth A. and J. Houston Mifflin, a painter and author of lyrics. He attended local schools, including the Washington Classical Institute, and studied art abroad in Germany and Italy. Delicate health compelled him to abandon art as a profession and to focus upon writing. From the 1890's to his death in 1921, he wrote many memorable sonnets and poems on American landscapes and classical history.

Lloyd Mifflin was born and raised in Pennsylvania, and studied painting in Germany and Italy. Failing health forced him to abandon a successful painting career in the middle of his life, and he turned to poetry, earning the honorific of "America's sonneteer."

American painter and poet. He was born and died in Columbia, Pennsylvania.

Lloyd Mifflin was an American poet.

He was born in Columbia, Pa. in 1892. He studied painting, but he later devoted himself to literary work and is known for his collections of sonnets. Mifflin died in 1910.