Synopses & Reviews
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.
The volume begins with a short biographical sketch of the poet and includes some 250 of her poems. The poems are arranged into sections illustrating some of her major themes: nature, love, remembrance, faith, family, history, and literature. An eighth section contains a complete narrative poem, Little Henrietta, about the life and death of a young girl. Introductory comments help to place Reese in the continuum of American poetry and to indicate her influence on succeeding generations of poets. The book also includes an extensive bibliography and a subject index.
Synopsis
This volume provides a short biographical sketch of Lizette Woodworth Reese, who was internationally admired for her poetic genius in her lifetime, and includes some 250 of her poems.
Synopsis
In her lifetime, Lizette Woodworth 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 begins with a short biographical sketch of the poet and includes some 250 of her poems. Poems are arranged into sections illustrating her major themes--nature, love, remembrance, faith, family, history, and literature--and section introductions help to place Reese in the continuum of American poetry and to indicate her influence on succeeding generations of poets. The book includes an extensive bibliography and a subject index.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-156) and index.
About the Author
ROBERT J. JONES is now retired and was a freelance writer after thirty-five years as a television/radio personality and journalist in Maryland and Ohio.