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Josephine Preston Peabody (May 30, 1874 – December 4, 1922) was an American poet and dramatist.
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Free Verse Hampers Poets and Is Undemocratic; Josephine Preston Peabody Says That, Nevertheless, the War Is Making Poetry Less Exclusive and the Imagiste Cult Will Be Swept Away
Poems by Josephine Preston Peabody at English Poetry
{{DEFAULTSORT:Peabody, Josephine Preston 1874 births 1922 deaths 19th-century American poets 19th-century American women writers 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights Writers from Boston Writers from New York City Radcliffe College alumni American women poets American women dramatists and playwrights Boston Latin Academy alumni
Josephine Preston Peabody (May 30, 1874 – December 4, 1922) was an American poet and dramatist.
Biography
Peabody was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School,Boston
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, and at Radcliffe College.
In 1898, she was introduced to fifteen-year-old Khalil Gibran
Gibran Khalil Gibran ( ar, جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان, , , or , ; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced ), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist ...
by Fred Holland Day
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, the American photographer and co-founder of the Copeland-Day publishing house, at an art exhibition. Shortly thereafter Gibran returned to Lebanon but the pair continued to correspond.
From 1901 to 1903, she was instructor in English
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at Wellesley. The Stratford-on-Avon prize went to her in 1909 for her drama ''The Piper'', which was produced in England
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in 1910; and in America at the New Theatre, New York City
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, in 1911. Composer Grace Chadbourne used Peabody's text for her songs "Green Singing Book" and "Window Pane Songs".
On June 21, 1906 she married Lionel Simeon Marks
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, a British engineer and professor at Harvard University
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. They had a daughter, Alison Peabody Marks (July 30, 1908 – April 7, 2008), and a son, Lionel Peabody Marks (February 10, 1910 - January 25, 1984).
Selected works
*''Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew'' (1897) *''The Wayfarers: A Book of Verse'' (1898) *''Fortune and Men's Eyes: New Poems, with a Play'' (1900) *''In the Silence'' (1900) *''Marlowe'' (her first play), *''The Singing Leaves; a book of songs and spells'' (1903) *''The Wings'' (1905), a drama *''The Book of the Little Past'' (1908) *''The Piper: A Play in Four Acts'' (1909) *''The Singing Man'' (1911), poems *''The Wolf of Gubbio'' (1913) *''New Poems'' (1915)References
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* January 23, 1916, ''New York Times''Free Verse Hampers Poets and Is Undemocratic; Josephine Preston Peabody Says That, Nevertheless, the War Is Making Poetry Less Exclusive and the Imagiste Cult Will Be Swept Away
Poems by Josephine Preston Peabody at English Poetry
{{DEFAULTSORT:Peabody, Josephine Preston 1874 births 1922 deaths 19th-century American poets 19th-century American women writers 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights Writers from Boston Writers from New York City Radcliffe College alumni American women poets American women dramatists and playwrights Boston Latin Academy alumni