- Sarah Morgan Bryan 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
External links
Categories:- American poets
- People from Lexington, Kentucky
- 1836 births
- 1919 deaths
- American poet, 19th century birth stubs
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