Author:Jones Very

Jones Very
(1813–1880)

Jones Very

Works

Poems

• "The Barberry-Bush"
• "The Columbine"
• "The Created"
• "The Grave Yard" (1839)
• "The Hand and Foot" (1839)
• "The Lost"
• "The New Birth"
• "The New World"
• "The Origin of Man"
• "The Prayer"
• "The Presence"
• "The Spheres"
• "The Spirit Land" (1838)
• "The Silent"
• "The Stranger's Gift" (1838)
• "Thy Brother's Blood" (1839)
• "Yourself"

Essays

• "Epic Poetry"
• "Shakspeare"
• "Hamlet"

Works about Very

• "Very, Jones," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Very, Jones," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1889)
• "Friendship" (1841) by Ralph Waldo Emerson makes a reference to Very: "I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy..."