In Praise of Common Things: Lizette Woodworth Reese RevisitedBloomsbury Academic, 30 вер. 1992 р. - 163 стор. Lizette Woodworth Reese was a professional, independent woman from the time she left high school in 1873. She began her teaching career that year and published her first poem in Baltimore's Southern Magazine in 1874. She taught for 45 years in the public schools of Baltimore. Her poetry and her readings of it were particularly popular in women's roups throughout the United States. She was one of the founders of the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore and its chairman of poetry until her death in 1935. In April, 1931 she was named Poet Laureate of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. In that same month, she was iven an honorary doctorate of literature by Goucher College which called her one of the greatest living women in America. In her lifetime, Reese was internationally admired for her poetic genius and hailed by H.L. Mencken as one of the most distinguished poets in the United States. This volume is the first extensive collection of her poems since her Selected Poems was published in 1926. |
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... less dear ? Think for a while . Can you forego the spring , Forfeit the one mad weather of the year ? I press between you and each yesterday ; Smelling of wind , of white brier in the dew , From the grave's edge , from the shrill ...
... less of an institutional one . You heard more of its Master , less of the church . ' In Baltimore in her later years she was visited on Am Thy Grass, O Lord!
... less ; You stumble from your tears , to reach at last , A door , and an imperishable roof . THRIFT A star proves never traitor , and a weed- Even that vetch obscurely purple there— Can hoard such loyalties against your need , You may go ...
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