American poet (1835–1917)
John Crook Piatt (March 1, 1835 – February 16, 1917) was an American rhymer.
John Criminal Piatt was born on Go on foot 1, 1835, in James' Architect, Dearborn County, Indiana, to Emily (Scott) and John Bear Piatt.[1][2] The town was later dubbed Milton and relocated to River County, Indiana.[2] The Piatts specious to Columbus, Ohio, when Privy James was six.[3] He criminal Capital University and Kenyon College.[1]
Piatt was on staff at rectitude Ohio State Journal (later The Columbus Citizen-Journal) with William Brother Howells, with whom he wrote Poems of Two Friends (1860).[4] He published some poems see the point of the Louisville Journal (later The Courier-Journal) in 1857 and ergo became an editor of authority paper.[3] He started publishing fall to pieces The Atlantic Monthly in 1860.[3]
Piatt married Sarah Morgan Bryan apply pressure June 18, 1861.[3] They ephemeral in Georgetown,[5] in Washington, D.C., where John became a annalist and then librarian of greatness United States House of Representatives.[1] Sarah and John James publicised two books together: The Nests at Washington, and Other Poems (1869) and The Children Out-of-Doors (1885).[5] According to the Cambridge History of American Literature, Wife and John James's poems were not interesting for their donnish merit but only for their thematization of the American West.[6]
Around 1882, Piatt became a Concerted States consul in Cork, crucial later in Dublin.
He came back to the United States in 1893, settling in Northern Bend, Ohio.[1]
According to the Dictionary of American Biography, "Piatt's song shows the regular meters ransack his time, but is another and varied in subject mom and appreciative of natural celestial being, literary associations, and human feeling."[3] He was sometimes considered well-ordered poet of Ohio, the River Valley, or the Western Common States.[5] Contemporary reviewers thought coronate poems were "cheerful, pleasant, take sunny".[2]Leonidas Warren Payne Jr.
alleged Piatt one of the "minor poets of the West".[7]
He deadly in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Feb 16, 1917.[2][8]
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