[Letter] 1914 February 25, Staten Island [to] Mr. Kilmer, [New York City] / Edwin Markham. 1914.

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[Letter] 1914 February 25, Staten Island [to] Mr. Kilmer, [New York City] / Edwin Markham. 1914.

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Will do anything for him or the New Yoirk Times; tells him that it's hard to choose the best poem; goes on to list Shelley, Keat, Swimburne, Poe, Branch and Browning; but settles with Tennyson's "Tears, Idle Tears."

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Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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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 ...

Kilmer,

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