Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, circa 1897

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (August 11, 1836 – December 22, 1919) was an American poet.

Biography

Sarah Morgan Bryan was born in Lexington, Kentucky to Talbot Nelson Bryan and Mary Spiers. On June 18, 1861 she married John James Piatt, also a poet, as well as a federal employee who eventually served as an American Consul in Ireland. During her career, she published some 450 poems across fifteen volumes and in leading periodicals of the day. She died in Caldwell, New Jersey.

Literary works

• A Woman's Poems. 1871
• A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles. 1874
• That New World, & Other Poems. 1877
• Poems in Company with Children. 1877
• Dramatic Persons and Moods, With Other New Poems. 1880
• A Book About Baby. And Other Poems in Company with Children. 1882
• An Irish Garland. 1885
• In Primrose Time: a new Irish garland. 1886
• Mrs. Piatt's Select Poems. A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles and Other Poems. 1886
• Child's-World Ballads: Three Little Emigrants, a Romance of Cork Harbour, 1884, Etc. 1887
• The Witch in the Glass, Etc. 1888
• An Irish Wild-Flower, Etc. 1891
• An Enchanted Castle, and Other Poems: Pictures, Portraits and People in Ireland. 1893
• Poems. 1894
• Complete Poems 1894
• Palace-Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt. Ed. Paula Bernat Bennett. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Works in collaboration with her husband

• The Nests at Washington And Other Poems. 1864
• The Children Out-of-Doors A Book of Verses, by Two in One House. 1885

Works in collaboration with her husband and William Dean Howells

• The Hesperian Tree: An Annual of the Ohio Valley, 1903. 1903

Footnotes

Further reading

• Matthew Giordano, "'A Lesson from' the Magazines: Sarah Piatt and the Postbellum Periodical Poet," American Periodicals, vol. 16, no. 1 (2006), pp. 23–51. In JSTOR
• "Piatt, Sarah Morgan (Bryan)" in American Authors 1600-1900. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1938.

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• Paula Bennett Research Materials for Palace-Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt The Ohio State University Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
• New Finding List for Sarah Piatt's Poetry compiled by Paula Bernat Bennett (This is a list of selected poems by Piatt with a bibliographical record of all known printings of each poem in book and periodical form; a bibliography of all Piatt's published books; and a partial list of anthologies that reprinted her work.)
• Larry R. Michaels Biographical Research Notes on Sarah Piatt The Ohio State University Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
• Sarah Piatt books and periodicals donated by Larry R. Michaels to The Ohio State University Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
• The Capital (Digital portal to full issues of the rare Washington, D.C.-based weekly newspaper edited by Piatt's brother-in-law, Donn Piatt, who often published her poems in it. Digitization and hosting provided by The Ohio State University Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library.)
• Poems by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
• RPO - Selected Poetry of Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
• Department of English at the University of Toronto. "Selected Poetry of Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836–1919)". Representative Poetry Online. Accessed August 19, 2008