Edwin Markham Collection 1880-1985

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Edwin Markham Collection 1880-1985

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv47896

A collection that includes Oregon poet, Edwin Markham's, datebook and miscellaneous papers and poetry drafts.

2 boxes

eng,

Lew s & Clark College Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6372689

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Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940

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California poet. Raised near Vacaville, became a schoolteacher in Coloma and later in Oakland. Became famous overnight with publication of "The Man with a Hoe," his protest against brutalization of labor, in "San Francisco Examiner" (January 15, 1899). Following this success Markham moved to New York where he scored another triumph with "Lincoln and Other Poems" (1901). He became a well-known reader of his own poems and lecturer of idealistic views, but his creative output for remainder of life ...