Songs of the Sea: With Other Poems (Classic Reprint)
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Several ...)
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Several of the following poems, and among them the ballad of Adelaide's Triumph, are now for the first time published. Others have appeared in different periodicals, with which the writer has been connected during the last ten years, and have met with a kind reception from the public. How far any of them may be deemed worthy of preservation, will be solved, probably, by the fate of this edition, which has been carefully reyised, and contains the first and only complete and authorized collection of.
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Selections in Poetry for Exercises at School and at Home (Classic Reprint)
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If these views of poetry are true, we cannot well exaggerate the importance of the cultivation of a taste for its enjoyments by the young; and especially by the female portion, by whom the destinies of future immortals are to be to so great an extent influenced, for evil or for good.
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Planchette: Or the Despair of Science; Being a Full Account of Modern Spiritualism, Its Phenomena, and the Various Theories Regarding It; With a Survey of French Spiritism (Classic Reprint)
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To THE Rev. W. M. :1rY DEAR Friend, More than twenty years ago, we ventured to cross the border of what Ennemoser calls the great ill-famed land of the marvellous. Certain manifestations arrested our notice. Repelled and, for a long time, baffled by what seemed merely grotesque or trivial, we did not abandon inquiry. Our interest in the proscribed phenomena has not yet abated.
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What though Spring Brin...)
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What though Spring Brings not Of Youth the wonder and the zest; The hopes, the day-dreams, and the exultations The animal life whose overflow and waste Would far out-measure now our little hoard The health that made mere physical existence An ample joy that on the ocean beach Shared with the leaping waves their breezy glee That in deep woods, or in forsaken clearings.
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Epes Sargent was an American editor, poet and playwright.
Background
Epes Sargent was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States, on September 27, 1813. He was of the sixth generation of his family in America, a descendant of William Sargent who received a grant of land in Gloucester. He was the son of Epes Sargent, a Gloucester ship-master, and his second wife, Hannah Dane Coffin, also of Gloucester. In 1818 the father removed from his native town to Roxbury and began a not wholly successful career as a Boston merchant, after which he returned to the sea.
Education
He entered the Boston Latin School in 1823 and was graduated in 1829. His course was interrupted for some months. He attended Harvard College for a short time.
Career
In the early thirties he joined the editorial staff of the Boston Daily Advertiser, and later that of the Boston Daily Atlas. For some time he was Washington correspondent of the Atlas, and thus formed many political acquaintances, particularly among the Whigs. A later result of this experience was his Life and Public Services of Henry Clay (1842, and subsequent revisions).
After leaving the Atlas he devoted himself to miscellaneous literary work. His first plays-- The Bride of Genoa (written 1836; published 1837) and Velasco (written 1837; published 1839) were both produced at the Tremont Theatre, Boston.
From about 1839 to 1847 Sargent was engaged in various ventures in New York. He worked with Morris on the New York Mirror, with Park Benjamin on the New World, founded and conducted for a few months Sargent's New Monthly Magazine (January-June 1843), and edited The Modern Standard Drama (7 vols. , beginning in 1846). In 1847 he returned to Boston and until 1853 was editor of the Boston Transcript.
His Songs of the Sea with other Poems based largely on experiences during a voyage to Cuba. Some of the sonnets in this collection have merit, but the only piece now remembered is the song, "A Life on the Ocean Wave. " Another collection of poems appeared in 1858, and a narrative in verse, The Woman who Dared, in 1870. Among his works of fiction were Fleetwood, or the Stain of Birth (1845), and Peculiar, a Tale of the Great Transition (1864).
More miscellaneous are American Adventure by Land and Sea (1841); Arctic Adventure by Sea and Land (1857, 1860). Plays, besides the two already named, were a comedy, Change Makes Change, and a tragedy, The Priestess (privately printed, 1854).
Sargent edited the works of several English poets, among them Hood, Rogers, Campbell, Gray, and Goldsmith; two miscellanies, The Emerald (1866) and The Sapphire (1867); and Harper's Cyclopedia of British and American Poetry, published posthumously in 1881.
He was in correspondence with the leading students of Spiritualism at home and in Europe, and wrote, besides many articles for periodicals, Planchette, or the Despair of Science (1869), The Proof Palpable of Immortality (1875), and The Scientific Basis of Spiritualism (1880). Sargent was in poor health during his later years, suffering from a complication of ailments, especially bronchial; but his death resulted from a cancer of the mouth.
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Personality
Quotes from others about the person
A contemporary wrote: "A dapper, elegant little man he was, neatly attired, swinging a thin, polished back bamboo cane, and seeming the embodiment of cheer".
Interests
In the later years of his life he was interested in Spiritualism, devoted much of his waning energy to the exposition of his new faith, and did relatively less of other writing.
Connections
On May 10, 1848, he married Elizabeth W. Weld of Roxbury.