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Joyce Kilmer

Chapter 1: JOYCE KILMER POEMS, ESSAYS AND LETTERS IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME ONE: MEMOIR AND POEMS
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A biographical memoir accompanies a wide selection of poems, essays, and letters that together trace the author’s life, friendships, and artistic growth. The poems alternate between nature and devotional themes, domestic observations, and wartime and memorial pieces composed both abroad and at home. Essays and correspondence reveal literary preferences, personal affections, and religious sensibilities, while photographs and facsimiles supplement the personal record. The collection balances lyrical short poems with occasional longer pieces and critical or biographical sketches, offering a compact portrait of a poet engaged with faith, ordinary life, and the moral and emotional stakes of his historical moment.

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Title: Joyce Kilmer

poems, essays and letters in two volumes. Volume 1, memoirs and poems

Author: Joyce Kilmer

Editor: Robert Cortes Holliday

Release date: June 20, 2021 [eBook #65652]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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JOYCE KILMER
POEMS, ESSAYS
AND LETTERS
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOLUME ONE: MEMOIR AND POEMS

© Underwood and Underwood

JOYCE KILMER, AGE 30
LAST CIVILIAN PORTRAIT

JOYCE KILMER

EDITED WITH A MEMOIR
BY ROBERT CORTES HOLLIDAY

VOLUME ONE
MEMOIR AND POEMS

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

Copyright, 1914, 1917, 1918
By George H. Doran Company

Printed in the United States of America


TO THE MEMORY OF
JOYCE KILMER