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Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927)

See biography, quotes. Florence Earle Coates—American poet and philanthropist from Philadelphia, PA.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Poetic works 1.1.1 Collections 1.1.2 Posthumous collections 1.1.3 Fugitive verse 1.2 Articles 1.3 Letters 2 Works about Coates 2.1 Letters written to Florence Earle Coates 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Works

[edit] Poetic works

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Some day, it is to be hoped, we may look for a book of lyrics from Mrs. Florence Earle Coates, whose store of music increases with each month's magazines.[1] Where there is so much sweetness in single notes, there must needs be an unusual charm in a complete opus. [The Literary World, 26 March 1892; p. 109.]

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[edit] Collections

• Poems (1898)^[2] Dedicated to the memory of Matthew Arnold.
• Mine and Thine (1904)^[3] Dedicated to Edmund Clarence Stedman.
• Lyrics of Life (1909)^[4] Dedicated to S. Weir Mitchell.
• The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912)^[5] Dedicated to Horace Howard Furness.
• Poems (Coates 1916) in 2 vols.^[6] "To him who found me sleeping, all my soul..."
• Pro Patria (1917)^[7] A 16-page pamphlet of seven war poems published privately in Philadelphia in support of American involvement in World War I.

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I am unable to see why copyright should not be perpetual. Property in thought is as real as property in land or money. I once discussed the subject with a company of smart criminals within prison walls. They denied that the fruits of the mind were ever real property, but they brought forward no satisfactory argument to substantiate their denial. [Mrs. Coates on perpetual copyright (The Literary Digest, 2 Dec 1899).]

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[edit] Posthumous collections

• Victi Resurgunt (2009)^[8] A 26-page pamphlet of "fugitive" patriotic and war poems written by Mrs. Coates.

[edit] Fugitive verse

Poetry by Florence Earle Coates which appeared in various periodicals or literary collections, but were not part of any of her own collections.

• On Re-reading "The Sick King in Bokhara" (The Literary World, 26 June 1886)^[9][10]
• Winter the Nursery for Spring Flowers (Meehan's Monthly, January 1896)
• Dreyfus^[11] (The Independent, 16 February 1899) ("If thou art living, in that Devil's Isle")
• The Mourner (Lippincott's, May 1914)
• The Brave (Harper's Monthly, April 1915)
• The Gods Remember (Harper's Monthly, October 1916; The Literary Digest, 21 October 1916)
• In the Offing (The Minaret, May 1917)
• The Smile of Reims (The Bellman, 2 June 1917; The Literary Digest, 21 July 1917)
• The Kaiser (Fifes and Drums: A Collection of Poems of America at War, 1917)
• A Love-Song (The Bellman, 1 December 1917)
• Captain Guynemer (The Literary Digest, 27 April 1918; A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American poems of the World War: 1914-1919)
• Serbia (The Literary Digest, 8 June 1918; A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War: 1914-1919)
• A Soldier (The Bellman, 20 June 1918)
• For France (The Literary Digest, 22 June 1918; Patriotic Pieces from the Great War, 1918)
• Belgium (The Bellman, 21 September, 1918) ("I had a dream of Greatness ; and I saw—")
• The Infantry that Would Not Yield (The Bellman, 14 December 1918)
• Their Victory Won (Harper's Monthly, December 1918)
• As They Leave Us (Patriotic Pieces from the Great War, 1918)
• I Too Have Loved (The North American Review, January 1919)
• Our Land (Harper's Monthly, April 1919) ("The gift of an idealist,")
• In Memory of an American Soldier (The North American Review, June 1919)
• In Memory of Henry La Barre Jayne (Henry La Barre Jayne, 1857-1920: In Memoriam, 1920)
• Thanksgiving (Pieces for Every Day the Schools Celebrate, 1921) ("Thou that dost save through pain,")
• Masefield (The North American Review, May 1922)

[edit] Articles

• Matthew Arnold (The Century Magazine, April 1894:931-37)^[12]
• "Verses by R. W. Gilder [Appeared in the Saturday Review of Books and Art: From Readers section of The New York Times, 1 November 1902],^[13] 17 Oct 1902 (written)
• Matthew Arnold: A later estimate, from the point of view of one who knew him well (Lippincott's Monthly, December 1909:670-74)

[edit] Letters

"My dear Mr. Jenkins:—" A letter to Mr. Owen B. Jenkins (5 June 1902).

[edit] Works about Coates

• "A Camp in the Adirondacks: The summer home of Mrs. Florence Earle Coates, the Philadelphia poet" (Book News, Vol. XXIV No. 278: October 1905)
• "A Foremost American Lyrist: An Appreciation" by William Stanley Braithwaite (Lippincott's Monthly, March 1913:296-304)^[14]
• "Godlessness Mars Most Contemporary Poetry: Mrs. Coates finds modern poets nervously seeking novelties, and says in art there can be nothing new that is not ugly" (The New York Times, 10 December 1916)^[15]

[edit] Letters written to Florence Earle Coates

• "To Florence Earle Coates." Edmund Clarence Stedman responds to Mrs Coates' dedication of her 1904 collection of verse—Mine and Thine—to him. (29 December 1904)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The FLORENCE EARLE COATES Project A website dedicated to documenting the life and works of poet Florence Earle Coates.
• The Published Works of Florence Earle Coates (Magazines): a comprehensive list of over two-hundred poems by Florence Earle Coates that were published in magazines of her day.
• Women's Poetry of the First World War (1988) book review :Florence Earle Coates on war.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1927, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.