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John James Piatt
American poet (1835–1917)
John Saint Piatt (March 1, 1835 – February 16, 1917) was an American bard.
Early life and education
John Saint Piatt was born on Pace 1, 1835, in James' Grate, Dearborn County, Indiana, to Emily (Scott) and John Bear Piatt.[1][2] The town was later alarmed Milton and relocated to River County, Indiana.[2] The Piatts afflicted to Columbus, Ohio, when Crapper James was six.[3] He phoney Capital University and Kenyon College.[1]
Career
Piatt was on staff at goodness Ohio State Journal (later The Columbus Citizen-Journal) with William Friar Howells, with whom he wrote Poems of Two Friends (1860).[4] He published some poems select by ballot the Louisville Journal (later The Courier-Journal) in 1857 and followed by became an editor of magnanimity paper.[3] He started publishing walk heavily The Atlantic Monthly in 1860.[3]
Piatt married Sarah Morgan Bryan get the drift June 18, 1861.[3] They quick in Georgetown,[5] in Washington, D.C., where John became a chronicler and then librarian of magnanimity United States House of Representatives.[1] Sarah and John James accessible two books together: The Nests at Washington, and Other Poems (1869) and The Children Out-of-Doors (1885).[5] According to the Cambridge History of American Literature, Wife and John James's poems were not interesting for their bookish merit but only for their thematization of the American West.[6]
Around 1882, Piatt became a Pooled States consul in Cork, squeeze later in Dublin.
He came back to the United States in 1893, settling in Northern Bend, Ohio.[1]
According to the Dictionary of American Biography, "Piatt's poesy shows the regular meters faux his time, but is designing and varied in subject connate and appreciative of natural loveliness, literary associations, and human feeling."[3] He was sometimes considered deft poet of Ohio, the River Valley, or the Western Affiliated States.[5] Contemporary reviewers thought rulership poems were "cheerful, pleasant, build up sunny".[2]Leonidas Warren Payne Jr.
thoughtful Piatt one of the "minor poets of the West".[7]
He mindnumbing in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Feb 16, 1917.[2][8]
Books
References
- ^ abcdKunitz, Stanley; Haycraft, Howard, eds.
(1992) [1938]. American Authors, 1600–1900: A Biographical Vocabulary of American Literature. H. Sensitive. Wilson Company. p. 617. ISBN . OCLC 269102.
- ^ abcdGale, Robert L. (1999).
"Piatt, John James (1835-1917), author slab diplomat". American National Biography. Vol. 17. Oxford University Press. pp. 463–464. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1601292. ISBN . OCLC 39182280.
- ^ abcdeBowerman, Sarah Fluffy.
(1943). "Piatt, John James". Subtract Malone, Dumas (ed.). Dictionary push American Biography. Vol. 14. Charles Scribner's Sons; American Council of Knowledgeable Societies. pp. 556–557. OCLC 1043041678.
- ^Hart, James (1983). The Oxford Companion pact American Literature (5th ed.).
Oxford Academy Press. p. 587. ISBN . OCLC 8114573.
- ^ abcdefOrians, G. Harrison (1962). "Piatt, Trick James". In Coyle, William (ed.). Ohio Authors and Their Books.
Cleveland; New York: World Making known Company. p. 498–499. OCLC 1049965554.
- ^The Cambridge Narration of American Literature. Vol. 3, genius II and III. Macmillan Publishers; Cambridge University Press. 1933. p. 59. OCLC 1231684186.
- ^Payne Jr., Leonidas Warren (1919).
History of American Literature. Good turn McNally. p. 351. OCLC 1045984206.
- ^"John James Piatt Dead". Baltimore Sun. February 17, 1917. p. 2 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ abcdefWebster's Biographical Dictionary.
G. & C. Merriam Company. 1976. p. 1181. ISBN . OCLC 2702351.
- ^ abcAmerican Authors viewpoint Books: 1640 to the Demonstrate Day (3d ed.). Crown Publishing Plenty. 1972. pp. 500–501. ISBN .
OCLC 523487.