The Female Poets of America; With Portraits, Biographical Notices, and Specimens of Their Writings (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849. Excerpt: ... FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD. The subject of this notice is the daughter of the late Joseph Locke, and is a native of Boston, in which city she resided until her marriage with Samuel S. Osgood, an artist of distinction. A noted writer says of her in a critique, "Her personal not less than her literary character and existence, are one perpetual poem. Not to write poetry--not to think it--act it--dream it, and be it--is entirely out of her power." Her first volume, "The Wreath of Wild Flowers," was published in England during a visit to that country, immediately after her marriage. In the words of the critic already quoted, "There was that about the volume--that inexpressible grace of thought and manner, which never fails to find a ready echo in the heart." The next collection of her poems was published in New York about three years since, and was most favourably received by the public and the press throughout the country. A charming naivete, an exquisite simplicity, an inimitable gTace, with at times a thrilling and impassioned earnestness, are Mrs. Osgood's chief characteristics as a writer. We close our remarks with a just and beautiful tribute to our fair authoress, from the pen of a sister poetess: "With her beautiful Italian soul, with her impulse, and wild imagery, and exuberant fancy, and glowing passionateness, and with the wonderful facility with which, like an almond tree casting oft" its blossoms, she flings around her heart-tinted and love-perfumed lays, she has, I must believe, more of the improvisatrice than has yet been revealed by any of our gifted countrywomen." THE DAISY'S MISTAKE. A Sunbeam and Zephyr were playing about, One spring, ere a blossom had peeped from the stem, When they heard, under ground, a faint, fairy-like shout: 'Twas the voic...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849. Excerpt: ... FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD. The subject of this notice is the daughter of the late Joseph Locke, and is a native of Boston, in which city she resided until her marriage with Samuel S. Osgood, an artist of distinction. A noted writer says of her in a critique, "Her personal not less than her literary character and existence, are one perpetual poem. Not to write poetry--not to think it--act it--dream it, and be it--is entirely out of her power." Her first volume, "The Wreath of Wild Flowers," was published in England during a visit to that country, immediately after her marriage. In the words of the critic already quoted, "There was that about the volume--that inexpressible grace of thought and manner, which never fails to find a ready echo in the heart." The next collection of her poems was published in New York about three years since, and was most favourably received by the public and the press throughout the country. A charming naivete, an exquisite simplicity, an inimitable gTace, with at times a thrilling and impassioned earnestness, are Mrs. Osgood's chief characteristics as a writer. We close our remarks with a just and beautiful tribute to our fair authoress, from the pen of a sister poetess: "With her beautiful Italian soul, with her impulse, and wild imagery, and exuberant fancy, and glowing passionateness, and with the wonderful facility with which, like an almond tree casting oft" its blossoms, she flings around her heart-tinted and love-perfumed lays, she has, I must believe, more of the improvisatrice than has yet been revealed by any of our gifted countrywomen." THE DAISY'S MISTAKE. A Sunbeam and Zephyr were playing about, One spring, ere a blossom had peeped from the stem, When they heard, under ground, a faint, fairy-like shout: 'Twas the voic...

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General Books LLC

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United States

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February 2012

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February 2012

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246 x 189 x 4mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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84

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978-1-150-71906-6

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9781150719066

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1-150-71906-0



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