George J. Dance wrote:
Will Dockery wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Zod wrote:
George J. Dance wrote:
Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
February Gems, by Allan R. Darrow
[...]
Sparkling in candescent glory bright,
Shone myriad diamonds in the morning light
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/february-gems-allen-r-darrow.html
#pennyspoems
Another new poet to me, I found his biography:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Local_and_National_Poets_of_America/QQ5aAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Allen+R.+Darrow%22+%22poet%22&pg=PA740&printsec=frontcover
An excellent find, Zod. There wasn't a lot to that bio, but it had his
birth date, which is something PPP didn't have. (Ancestry.com had his
death date, but only a year of birth.) So I've added that to the
article.
I recognized the name ''Local and National Poets''; that's a reprint
of the 1890 anthology where I found Robert F. Skillings. I checked the
1890 edition -- he was in it, too -- and added that info to his
bibliography as well.
Scholarship lives.
Great to see obscurity cleared up once again.
I doubt that Darrow or Skillings will every make it into Wikipedia. PPP
may be the only place on the web to find all that information.
An important Wiki to have, for the history of poetry.
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