Sarah Morgan Piatt

Sarah Morgan Piatt
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An 1888 lithograph of Piatt.

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (August 11, 1836 – December 22, 1919) an American poet 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, eventually serving 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

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

References

"Piatt, Sarah Morgan (Bryan)" American Authors 1600-1900. The H. W. Wilson Company, New York, 1938
Department of English at the University of Toronto. "Selected Poetry of Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919)." Representative Poetry Online. [1] Accessed August 19, 2008

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