Poetical selections, 1862 1858-1876.

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Poetical selections, 1862 1858-1876.

Notebook containing printed and manuscript copies of poems by various authors, many of them American, including several by Lydia Howard Sigourney and John Greenleaf Whittier, as well as poems by Ellie A. Jewett; Bret Harte; Mary Brainard; and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. British poets represented include Lord Tennyson; Austin Dobson; and Charles Kingsley.

1 v. (97 p.) ; 17 x 20 cm.

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Sigourney, Lydia Howard, 1791-1865

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (born September 1, 1791, Norwich, Connecticut–died June 10, 1865, Hartford, Connecticut), poet, also known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford", was the only daughter of a gardener. She attended private school with the assistance of her father’s employer, and founded a Hartford school for girls in 1814. At this school, without any specialized training, Sigourney taught a deaf student, Alice Cogswell, to read and write in English. Cogswell would later be the first student enr...

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

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John Greenleaf Whittier was a wildly popular New England poet. A deeply committed and active abolitionist, he wrote many of his poems with a political agenda, although distinguished by an open-minded tolerance so often lacking in his fellow abolitionists. Although his works are somewhat marred by overtly political and overly sentimental works, the core of his output stands as fine, lyrical American verse. From the description of John Greenleaf Whittier letters, 1858 and 1876. (Pennsy...

B., A.

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