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This biography presents an accurate history of the life of American poet, essayist, and editor, Louise Imogen Guiney. She was raised as a Christian and became famous for her lyrical, Old English-style poems that reflect the literary conventions of seventeenth-century English poetry and her concern with the Catholic tradition in literature. Born in 1861 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Guiney was a brave and honest soul. She was a member of several literary and social clubs. Guiney had the most vital and creative personal influence on their circle of writers and artists in Boston. This work beautifully describes significant events of her life, from childhood to death.
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The studies in this book are chosen from a number written at irregular intervals, and from sheer interest in their subjects, long ago. Portions of them, or rough drafts of what has since been wholly remodelled from fresher and fuller material at first hand, have appeared within five years in The Atlantic Monthly, Macmillan's, The Catholic World, and Poet-Lore; and thanks are due the magazines for permission to reprint them. Yet more cordial thanks, for kind assistance on biographical points, belong to the Earl of Powis; the Rev. R. H. Davies, Vicar of old St. Luke's, Chelsea; the Rev. T. Vere Bayne, of Christchurch, and H. E. D. Blakiston, Esq., of Trinity College, Oxford; T. W. Lyster...
The American poet and essayist Louise Imogen Guiney was a prominent figure of the Boston literary circle of her day. She is chiefly known for her lyrical, Old English-style poems, recalling the conventions of seventeenth-century poetry. Informed by her religious faith, Guiney's works exhibit a concern for the Catholic tradition, while emphasising moral rectitude and heroic gallantry. By the end of the nineteenth century, Guiney was regarded as a major contributor to American literature. In later years, she turned to scholarship, concentrating on neglected poets. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Gui...
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