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Louise Imogen Guiney

 
Works: Works by Louise Imogen Guiney
(1861-1920)

1884Songs at the Start. This first collection of verses modeled on English ballads shows the Boston poet's characteristic reliance on traditional metrical forms. A critical and popular success, it would be followed by Goose-Quill Papers (1885), an essay collection, and a second verse collection, The White Sail, and Other Poems (1887).
1893A Roadside Harp: A Book of Verses. Guiney's best-known and critically praised collection includes travel-related poems such as "For Isaak Walton" and "The Cherry Bough" and her best chivalric poems--"The Vigil-at-Arms," "The Knight-Errant," and "The Kings."

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