(Excerpt from Poems
It is proper to observe, in explanati...)
Excerpt from Poems
It is proper to observe, in explanation of the character of some of the songs and other verses, that they were written to appear in prose sketches and stories, and are expressions of feeling suitable to the persons and incidents with which they were originally connected.
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(10 works of Frances Sargent Osgood
American poet and one ...)
10 works of Frances Sargent Osgood
American poet and one of the most popular women writers during her time (1811-1850)
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Table of Contents:
- A Shipwreck
- A Song
- Echo-Song
- Forgive and Forget
- Little Red Riding-Hood
- Old Friends
- So Let It Be
- To My Book
- To S. S. Osgood
- Why Will A Rose Bud Blow
(The poetry of flowers and flowers of poetry. To which are...)
The poetry of flowers and flowers of poetry. To which are added, a simple treatise on botany, with familiar examples, and a copious floral dictionary (1851). This book, "The poetry of flowers and flowers of poetry", by Frances Sargent Locke Osgood, is a replication of a book originally published before 1851. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
Frances Sargent Locke Osgood was an American poet and one of the most popular women writers during her time, also remembered as a friend of Poe.
Background
Frances Sargent Osgood was descended from William Locke who emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1635. The daughter of Joseph Locke, merchant, and Mary (Ingersoll) Foster Locke, she was born on June 18, 1811, at Boston but lived in childhood in Hingham, Massachussets.
Career
A brother, sister, and half-sister (Anna Maria Foster Locke) wrote verse, and her parents encouraged Fanny to do likewise. Under the pseudonym "Florence, " she contributed to the Juvenile Miscellany edited by Mrs. Child. In 1834 while preparing verses on the paintings at the Boston Athenum, she met one of the exhibitors, Samuel Stillman Osgood, a painter of some talent. She sat to him for a portrait and on October 7, 1835, married him. With her husband she soon sailed for London, where Osgood had studied at the Royal Academy. He now gave his time to painting portraits, while she continued to write. The attractive young matron was taken up by Mrs. Norton, mingled in literary circles, contributed to magazines, and published a miniature volume, The Casket of Fate (1840). A daughter, Ellen Frances, was born July 15, 1836. In 1838 appeared a volume of poems, A Wreath of Wild Flowers from New England, which was well received, though her English fame was slight enough to make Elizabeth Barrett ask Browning in 1845 if he had ever heard of her. The collection contained a drama, Elfrida, with some good scenes and one mighty line. Sheridan Knowles asked her to write a play for him, and the result was The Happy Release, or the Triumphs of Love, which reached neither the boards nor (apparently) the printer.
Her father's death in 1839 called the Osgoods to Boston, where on July 21 a second daughter, May Vincent, was born. The family moved to New York, and Mrs. Osgood contributed to most of the better literary periodicals of the day. Her output included many poems and occasional prose tales, usually including verses. She sometimes used the pen name, Kate Carol. She had an editorial connection with Snowden's Ladies Companion, which was merely nominal, but she wrote or prepared for the press several volumes, including The Poetry of Flowers and the Flowers of Poetry (1841); The Snowdrop, a New Year Gift for Children, and The Rose, Sketches in Verse (1842); Puss in Boots (1844); The Cries of New York (1846); The Flower Alphabet.
In March 1845, she met Edgar Allan Poe, with whom her romantic story "Ida Grey" (1845) and contemporary comment indicate she fell in love. Poe and she were much together at literary gatherings --where Rufus W. Griswold was another admirer - they wrote verses to each other, and the critic, willingly blind, gave unmeasured praise in "The Literati" and elsewhere to her mild poetry. When his inspiration failed, he asked her to write a poem for him to deliver in November 1845, in Boston, but her "Lulin" proved unsuitable. Her friendship with Poe was one cause of the quarrels that led to Poe's libel suit against Thomas Dunn English. Poe and Frances Osgood probably ceased to meet about 1847, but were not embittered. A selection, Poems, was issued in 1846 and a larger selection under the same title appeared with illustrations in 1850; both were occasionally reprinted, the smaller as late as 1861.
A daughter, Fanny Fay, born in 1846, died early; the mother was consumptive, but continued to write voluminously. A little pamphlet, A Letter about the Lions (1849), was her last separate work - a gentle satire. Her husband went off to California in 1849 without her and returned to find her very ill. They moved into a new home at 112 West 22nd St. , New York, where she died on May 12, 1850. She was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachussets. In 1851 her friends published The Memorial, Written by Friends of the late Mrs. Osgood, edited by Mary E. Hewitt; it was reissued as Laurel Leaves in 1854.