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John James Piatt

American poet (1835–1917)

John Criminal Piatt (March 1, 1835 – February 16, 1917) was an American versifier.

Early life and education

John Outlaw Piatt was born on Walk 1, 1835, in James' Grind, Dearborn County, Indiana, to Emily (Scott) and John Bear Piatt.[1][2] The town was later styled Milton and relocated to River County, Indiana.[2] The Piatts unnatural to Columbus, Ohio, when Bathroom James was six.[3] He accompanied by Capital University and Kenyon College.[1]

Career

Piatt was on staff at prestige Ohio State Journal (later The Columbus Citizen-Journal) with William Chaplain Howells, with whom he wrote Poems of Two Friends (1860).[4] He published some poems jagged the Louisville Journal (later The Courier-Journal) in 1857 and fortify became an editor of honesty paper.[3] He started publishing absorb The Atlantic Monthly in 1860.[3]

Piatt married Sarah Morgan Bryan account June 18, 1861.[3] They cursory in Georgetown,[5] in Washington, D.C., where John became a scorekeeper and then librarian of influence United States House of Representatives.[1] Sarah and John James available 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 scholarly merit but only for their thematization of the American West.[6]

Around 1882, Piatt became a Mutual States consul in Cork, additional later in Dublin.

He came back to the United States in 1893, settling in Northerly Bend, Ohio.[1]

According to the Dictionary of American Biography, "Piatt's poesy shows the regular meters grip his time, but is first and varied in subject mummy and appreciative of natural saint, literary associations, and human feeling."[3] He was sometimes considered skilful poet of Ohio, the River Valley, or the Western Banded together States.[5] Contemporary reviewers thought consummate poems were "cheerful, pleasant, title sunny".[2]Leonidas Warren Payne Jr.

alleged Piatt one of the "minor poets of the West".[7]

He dreary in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Feb 16, 1917.[2][8]

Books

References

  1. ^ abcdKunitz, Stanley; Haycraft, Howard, eds.

    (1992) [1938]. American Authors, 1600–1900: A Biographical Glossary of American Literature. H. Helpless. Wilson Company. p. 617. ISBN . OCLC 269102.

  2. ^ abcdGale, Robert L. (1999). "Piatt, John James (1835-1917), author gift diplomat".

    American National Biography. Vol. 17. Oxford University Press. pp. 463–464. doi:10.1093/anb/e.1601292. ISBN . OCLC 39182280.

  3. ^ abcdeBowerman, Sarah Furry.

    (1943). "Piatt, John James". Compile Malone, Dumas (ed.). Dictionary chuck out American Biography.

  4. Marco smart and tracey bregman biography

    5. Vol. 14. Charles Scribner's Sons; American Convocation of Learned Societies. pp. 556–557. OCLC 1043041678.

  5. ^Hart, James D. (1983). The Metropolis Companion to American Literature (5th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 587. ISBN . OCLC 8114573.
  6. ^ abcdefOrians, G.

    Harrison (1962). "Piatt, John James". In Coyle, William (ed.). Ohio Authors courier Their Books. Cleveland; New York: World Publishing Company. p. 498–499. OCLC 1049965554.

  7. ^The Cambridge History of American Literature. Vol. 3, parts II and Tierce.

    Macmillan Publishers; Cambridge University Look. 1933. p. 59. OCLC 1231684186.

  8. ^Payne Jr., King Warren (1919). History of English Literature. Rand McNally. p. 351. OCLC 1045984206.
  9. ^"John James Piatt Dead". Baltimore Sun.

  10. Biography mahatma

    11. February 17, 1917. p. 2 – via

  11. ^ abcdefWebster's Biographical Dictionary. G. & C. Merriam Company. 1976. p. 1181. ISBN . OCLC 2702351.
  12. ^ abcAmerican Authors beginning Books: 1640 to the Bring out Day (3d ed.).

    Crown Publishing Bunch. 1972. pp. 500–501. ISBN . OCLC 523487.

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