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(This reproduction was printed from a digital file created...)
This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.
She was born on August 11, 1836 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, the daughter of Talbot Nelson and Mary (Spiers) Bryan. Her grandfather, Morgan Bryan, settled what was known as Bryan's Station.
Before Sarah was eight years old her mother died, and subsequently the girl lived with the maternal grandmother at Lexington, with friends near Versailles, Woodford County, briefly with her stepmother, and finally with an aunt, at New Castle, Kentucky.
Always a devoted reader of poetry, she especially loved Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, Moore, and Scott, and early began herself to write verse.
Education
She was graduated from Henry Female College at New Castle, Kentucky.
Career
Her first productions appeared in the Galveston, Texas, News. Some of her work came to the attention of George D. Prentice, editor of the Louisville Journal, who published it and prophesied for her the first place among American poets of her sex. Her own writings became widely known through the South.
She lived in Washington, until 1867, then in North Bend, Ohio, and for thirteen years, beginning in 1882, in Ireland, where her husband was United States consul. During these years she published some seventeen volumes of poems. Two of them, The Nests at Washington and Other Poems (1864) and The Children Out-of-Doors, a Book of Verses, by Two in One House (1885), were prepared in collaboration with her husband. Selected Poems appeared in 1886, and later Child's World Ballads (1887), a second series of which was issued in 1895; An Irish Wild-Flower (1891); An Enchanted Castle, and Other Poems: Pictures, Portraits and People in Ireland (1893); and in 1894 Complete Poems, in two volumes. All of her later volumes were published both in London or Edinburgh and in the United States.
On the return to America the Piatts lived in North Bend, Ohio. Sarah survived her husband and after his death lived with her son in Caldwell, New Jersey, where she died.
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Views
Her poetry is free from conventionality and introspective. Essentially feminine, it reflects the joys, griefs, and aspirations of the ordinary woman's life. Much of it was inspired by her own children.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
Katharine Tynan said she had "a gift as perfect and spontaneous as the song of a blackbird".
Connections
On June 18, 1861, she was married to the poet John James Piatt, whom she had met at New Castle.