{"id":434,"date":"2008-12-22T03:47:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T08:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/22\/poets-of-old\/"},"modified":"2008-12-22T03:47:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T08:47:51","slug":"poets-of-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2008\/12\/22\/poets-of-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Poets of Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a phone call tonight from a friend of mine, who had just acquired a book of romantic poets of the 19th Century.&nbsp; We spent some time with her reading a few of the poems, and some time with me looking the poets up on Wikipedia.&nbsp; I also mentioned that I have a book of poetry from that period, by John Godfrey (J.G.) Saxe.&nbsp; Sometime later (like, about 10 minutes ago), I decided to look HIM up on Wikipedia&#8230; and found that they knew virtually nothing about him, including having no bibliography.&nbsp; I immediately edited the page to add a Bibliography, with all the information I had on the one book that I have; nevertheless, I found it odd that a popular comic author writing in the mid-1800s has been so forgotten.&nbsp; As a poet, I rank him slightly beneath my favorite comic poet, Guy Wetmore Carryl.&nbsp; (At least they have photocopies of at least 2 of Carryl&#8217;s books online, at Michigan State University&#8217;s website.)&nbsp; Saxe gets quite silly, but most of his poems are worth reading and chuckling over.&nbsp; Prior to tonight, I had no idea how rare this book was&#8230; it isn&#8217;t in fabulous shape, but is still readable.&nbsp; You wouldn&#8217;t be in as good of shape if you were published by Houghton, Mifflin and Co. in 1881.&nbsp; According to my note in the inside cover, I purchased this while living in Browns Mills, NJ &#8212; that would probably mean a library book sale, in 1972-73.<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<br \/>Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a phone call tonight from a friend of mine, who had just acquired a book of romantic poets of the 19th Century.&nbsp; We spent some time with her reading a few of the poems, and some time with me looking the poets up on Wikipedia.&nbsp; I also mentioned that I have a book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}