The newspaper., 1908-04-17
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beautiful woman also poems. After her
death in 1853, he published small volume OF her
poems for private circulation. Lowell also published
small volume OF his own poems in 1874 and another
volume in 1913. Thee famous "Biglow Paper ana
"A Table for Critics" published the same year
He married a second time in 1851, appointed
minister Spnin in 1877 and in 1850 was transferred
to the court of st. James
After his America in 1885 he delivered ad-
dresses the Lowell Institute and some public
occasions In 1885, he published final volume oil
poems. He also wrote THE Cathedral and The
Willows He died In 1891
Oliver Wendell Holmes born In 1909 in Cam
bridge. Mass. His early boyhood was very common
place. He graduated from Harvard In 1923. He
graduated doctor in 1896. Two years later he was
appointed to the Professorshp OF Anatomy at DART
mouth College and for several terms he ectured there
Oliver Wendell Holmes became known as a poet by
Ais poem, Od Ironsides," which written to save
the rgate Constitution from dismantlng. This poem
wascoped in all the papers and by Its influence the
old frigate converted into n schools ship.
Six years later he published "A small volume ofverse,
containing "Old Ironsides.'' 1.-The Dilemma" MY
Aunt" and 1.-The Last Leaf" Holmes very active
until old age, and in 1880 published his last
volume. "over the Tea Cups" He died Oct Z, 1894.
The author of 1.-The Ancient Mariner" Samuel
Taylor Coeridge, born in England in 1I72 and he
and William Wordsworth, apother English poet
wrote the .'Ly rical Ballad"
Coleridge died in 1894 and Wordsworth in 1850.
One of Englands most celebrated poets, Lord
Alfred Thompson. was born I'm 1903. He was educated
at Cambridge and in 1850 was appointed poetlaureate
succeed Wordsworth
Twice he refused a baronetcy. but In 1883 accepted
peerage at Gladstone's request His new title was
Baron OF Aldworth, Sussex and Freshwater, lsle OF
Wight. His poems too numerous to name, but
among them are, "Enoch Arden THE May Queen
and "Locksley Hail."
During his final Illness. he dictated THE Silent
Voices, sung at his funeral He passed away Oct o.
1892 and buried Oct II. in Westminster Abbey.
Another English poet, Rudyard Kipling. born
in Bombay, in 1853 'Barrack Room Ballads IL h-
most successful poem
Among the later American poets. WIN Carleton
stands high in estimation. The year of his birth
1si5 and Michigan his native state
He will long be remembered by his Farm Ballads
published In 1883. Farm legends 1875. and city
Ballads" 1885.
James whitcomb Riley. the Indiana poet, was born
He sfamous for his dialect poems and is also
the author OF child The Ole Swimmin' Hole.
and 'leven more Poems" published In 1883 and
"Home Folks in 1900
Eugenelsield was n journalist. born In st. Louis.
1850. 1t Is said his latest and best work done in
Chicago. He was very fond OF children and wrote
delightful ullabys for them. Some Of his poems
have been set to music. among them Little Boy
Blue" "wynken Blyken and Nod and the Sugar
Plum Tree
Two well known western poets Francis Bret
Harte and Joaquin Miller.
Harte born in New York, hut early went u
California. where he taught school, mined and wrote
both prose and poetry. East and West Poems
published In ISL He published more than forty
volumes OF both prose and poetry.
joaquin Miller born In 1871. His parents named
him Cincinnatus Hner Miller, but he rechristened
himself. He known the Poet of the Sierras.'
In 1870 he went to England and In 1871 he published
Songs OF the Sierras.' Newcomer crticises Mller-
poetry Careless. but says that "It has glmpses
wild beauty, with here and there passage that il
genuinely melodious "
Paul Laurence Dunbar Is poet Of African blood.
lie born In Dayton Ohio 1872. Folk from
Dixie" prose, published In 1897.
Edwin Markham born I'm Oregon City. Oregon.
1852 Is the author OF the celebrated poem. 1.-The
with the Hoe and other poems.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, native OF Wisconsin.
IL well known through her Poems Of Passion 1881:
and Poems Of Pleasure" 1883; well numerous
other poems published lately
Another Western and very modern poet IL Alfred
Castner King He IL still young man, deeply
afflicted by the loss Of his eyesght This due to
premature explosion which occurred March IL,
To this misfortune added that of limited means.
He wrote IN his Introduction OF Mountain Idylls
and Other Poems the following touching lines, at
First further effort seemed useless but time amco-
rates in some degree the deplorable and
distressing physical conditions, ambition slowly
rallie VIII living fors m ha