Charles Follen Adams
Charles Follen Adams (born April 21, 1842 in Dorchester , Massachusetts , † March 8, 1918 in Roxbury , Massachusetts) was an American poet , best known for his volume of poetry Leedle Yawcob Strauss .
Life
After attending public schools in 1857 Adams began the age of fifteen working as a merchant's assistant before he during the Civil War as a volunteer in 1862 his military service in the 13th infantry regiment began Massachusetts. In the following years he participated in all combat operations of his unit and part came in July 1863 after being wounded during the Battle of Gettysburg in captivity . After his release, he received treatment for a long time.
Adams began at the beginning of the 1870s as a writer of mostly humorous poems in the dialect of Pennsylvania Dutch as first in 1872 in The Puzzled Dutchman in the volume Our Young Folks .
His most famous collection of poems, Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems (1877), was followed not only by Dialect Ballads (1887) and Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems (1910), but also by numerous publications in daily newspapers and magazines such as Mother's Donuts and Cut, cut behind! in Harper's Magazine .
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- Meyers Großes Personenlexikon , Mannheim 1968, p. 17
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Adams, Charles Follen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dorchester , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1918 |
| Place of death | Roxbury , Massachusetts |