Phoebe Cary
Phoebe Cary (born September 4, 1824 in Mount Healthy / Ohio , † July 31, 1871 in New York City ) was an American poet .
Life
Phoebe Cary grew up on the Clovernook Farm , best known for the stories of her older sister Alice Cary . She began writing poetry at the age of seventeen, and Rufus W. Griswold added some of her poems to his collection, The Female Poets of America , and arranged for the publication of the poems of Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary in 1849 .
In 1851 she followed her sister to New York, where they both ran a household. She briefly worked on Susan B. Anthony's magazine The Revolution . While the importance of her sister is seen today mainly in her role as a narrator, Phoebe is considered the more important poet. After the first joint volume of poetry, both sisters published independently of each other. Posthumously, Mary Clemmer Ames published several volumes with compilations of posthumous poems by both.
Works
- Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary (1849)
- Poems and Parodies (1854)
- Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love (1867)
- A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary With Some of Their Later Poems (1873)
- The Last Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary (1873)
- Ballads for Little Folk by Alice and Phoebe Cary (1873)
literature
- Cary, Alice . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 1 : Aaron - Crandall . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 546 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Phoebe Cary Poetry Foundation
- Paul P. Reuben: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide . Chapter 3: Alice Cary (1820–1871) and Phoebe Cary (1824–1871)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cary, Phoebe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mount Healthy |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1871 |
| Place of death | New York City |