Sarah Williams

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Sarah Williams (December 1837 - April 25, 1868 ) was a British poet and author. During her lifetime she published short works and a gathering under the pseudonyms Sadie and SADI Posthumously, a second gathering and a novel appeared under her maiden name.

life and work

Williams grew up in Marylebone , London and never lived outside of town. She was close to her Welsh father Robert Williams (approx. 1807–1868); his influence caused her to incorporate Welsh phrases and themes into her work and was considered a Welsh poet.

Williams died in 1868 during cancer surgery.

Her second congregation, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse , was published after her death in 1868. It includes Williams' best known work, The Old Astronomer , which is about the last words of an old astronomer to his student. The second half of the fourth verse is often quoted and has been chosen as the burial motto by several astronomers:

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. "

“Even if my soul perishes in the dark, it will rise again in perfect light.
I loved the stars too much to be afraid of the night. "

Hints

  1. ↑ According to contemporary sources 1837. Later sources often incorrectly state the date of birth as 1841, based on a reference work from 1898. See Alfred Henry Miles: The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century . tape 7 , 1898, p. 573-594 ( books.google.de - restricted preview).

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Sarah Williams  - sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Index entry . In: FreeBMD . ONS. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b “Sadie”: In Memory of an Esteemed Contributor . In: Norman Macleod (Ed.): Good Words for 1868 . Strahan & Co., London June 1, 1868, OCLC 7880358 ( books.google.de [accessed August 28, 2015]).
  3. ↑ Edward Hayes Plumptre: Twilight Hours. A Legacy of Verse . Ed .: Sarah Williams. Strahan, 1868, p. vii – xxxiii ( archive.org ).
  4. ^ A b c Stefan Hughes: Catchers of the light. The forgotten lives of the men and women who first photographed the heavens. Their true tales of adventure, adversity & triumph . Short edition, 2 volumes. ArtDeCiel, Paphos 2013, ISBN 978-1-4675-7992-6 , pp. i ( catchersofthelight.com [PDF]).
  5. ^ JJ: Queries . In: Charles Wilkins (of Merthyr-Tydfil), James Harris (Ed.): The Red Dragon. The National Magazine of Wales . Daniel Owen, Howell and Company, Cardiff 1885, p. 406 ( books.google.com - restricted).
  6. ↑ Don Barnes: I Have Loved the Stars Too Fondly . In: Sky and Telescope . tape 95 , no. 3 , March 1998, pp. 10 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Sarah Williams: Twilight hours. A legacy of verse . Strahan & Co., London 1868, OCLC 262464065 , The Old Astronomer , p. 69 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Sarah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sadie (pseudonym); SADI (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British poet and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 1837
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1868