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John James Piatt

American poet (–)

John James Piatt (March 1, &#;&#; February 16, ) was an American poet.

Early life and education

John James Piatt was born on March 1, , in James' Mills, Dearborn County, Indiana, to Emily (Scott) and John Bear Piatt.[1][2] The town was later called Milton and relocated to Ohio County, Indiana.[2] The Piatts moved to Columbus, Ohio, when John James was six.[3] He attended Capital University and Kenyon College.[1]

Career

Piatt was on staff at the Ohio State Journal (later The Columbus Citizen-Journal) with William Dean Howells, with whom he wrote Poems of Two Friends ().[4] He published some poems in the Louisville Journal (later The Courier-Journal) in and then became an editor of the paper.[3] He started publishing in The Atlantic Monthly in [3]

Piatt married Sarah Morgan Bryan on June 18, [3] They lived in Georgetown,[5] in Washington, D.C., where John became a clerk and then librarian of the United States House of Representatives.[1] Sarah and John James published two books together: The Nests at Washington, and Other Poems () and The Children Out-of-Doors ().[5] According to the Cambridge History of American Literature, Sarah and John James's poems were not interesting for their literary merit but only for their thematization of the American West.[6]

Around , Piatt became a United States consul in Cork, and later in Dublin. He came back to the United States in , settling in North Bend, Ohio.[1]

According to the Dictionary of American Biography, "Piatt's poetry shows the regular meters of his time, but is original and varied in subject mater and appreciative of natural beauty, literary associations, and human feeling."[3] He was sometimes considered a poet of Ohio, the Ohio Valley, or the Western United States.[5] Contemporary reviewers thought his poems were "cheerful, pleasant, and sunny".[2]Leonidas Warren Payne Jr. considered Piatt one of the "minor poets of the West".[7]

He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 16, [2][8]

Books

References

  1. ^ abcdKunitz, Stanley; Haycraft, Howard, eds. () []. American Authors, – A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature. H. W. Wilson Company. p.&#; ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;
  2. ^ abcdGale, Robert L. (). "Piatt, John James (), author and diplomat". American National Biography. Vol.&#; Oxford University Press. pp.&#;– doi/anb/article ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;
  3. ^ abcdeBowerman, Sarah G. (). "Piatt, John James". In Malone, Dumas (ed.). Dictionary of American Biography. Vol.&#; Charles Scribner's Sons; American Council of Learned Societies. pp.&#;– OCLC&#;
  4. ^Hart, James D. (). The Oxford Companion to American Literature (5th&#;ed.). Oxford University Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;
  5. ^ abcdefOrians, G. Harrison (). "Piatt, John James". In Coyle, William (ed.). Ohio Authors and Their Books. Cleveland; New York: World Publishing Company. p.&#;– OCLC&#;
  6. ^The Cambridge History of American Literature. Vol.&#;3, parts II and III. Macmillan Publishers; Cambridge University Press. p.&#; OCLC&#;
  7. ^Payne Jr., Leonidas Warren (). History of American Literature. Rand McNally. p.&#; OCLC&#;
  8. ^"John James Piatt Dead". Baltimore Sun. February 17, p.&#;2 &#; via
  9. ^ abcdefWebster's Biographical Dictionary. G. & C. Merriam Company. p.&#; ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;
  10. ^ abcAmerican Authors and Books: to the Present Day (3d&#;ed.). Crown Publishing Group. pp.&#;– ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;

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