Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, circa 1897
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (August 11, 1836 – December 22, 1919) was an American poet.
Biography
Sarah Morgan Bryan was born in Lexington, Kentucky to Talbot Nelson Bryan and Mary Spiers. On June 18, 1861 she married John James Piatt, also a poet, as well as a federal employee who eventually served as an American Consul in Ireland. During her career, she published some 450 poems across fifteen volumes and in leading periodicals of the day. She died in Caldwell, New Jersey.
Literary works
- A Woman's Poems. 1871
- A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles. 1874
- That New World, & Other Poems. 1877
- Poems in Company with Children. 1877
- Dramatic Persons and Moods, With Other New Poems. 1880
- A Book About Baby. And Other Poems in Company with Children. 1882
- An Irish Garland. 1885
- In Primrose Time: a new Irish garland. 1886
- Mrs. Piatt's Select Poems. A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles and Other Poems. 1886
- Child's-World Ballads: Three Little Emigrants, a Romance of Cork Harbour, 1884, Etc. 1887
- The Witch in the Glass, Etc. 1888
- An Irish Wild-Flower, Etc. 1891
- An Enchanted Castle, and Other Poems: Pictures, Portraits and People in Ireland. 1893
- Poems. 1894
- Complete Poems 1894
- Palace-Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt. Ed. Paula Bernat Bennett. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
- Works in collaboration with her husband
- The Nests at Washington And Other Poems. 1864
- The Children Out-of-Doors A Book of Verses, by Two in One House. 1885
- Works in collaboration with her husband and William Dean Howells
- The Hesperian Tree: An Annual of the Ohio Valley, 1903. 1903
Footnotes
Further reading
- Matthew Giordano, "'A Lesson from' the Magazines: Sarah Piatt and the Postbellum Periodical Poet," American Periodicals, vol. 16, no. 1 (2006), pp. 23-51. In JSTOR
- "Piatt, Sarah Morgan (Bryan)" in American Authors 1600-1900. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1938.
External links
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- The Sarah Piatt Research Collection New Finding List for Sarah Piatt Poetry The Ohio State University Libraries Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection
- Poems by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
- RPO - Selected Poetry of Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
- Department of English at the University of Toronto. "Selected Poetry of Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919)". Representative Poetry Online. Accessed August 19, 2008
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