Author:Florence Earle Coates

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Florence Van Leer Earle Coates
(1850–1927)

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Philadelphia-born poet laureate of Pennsylvania who gained notoriety both at home and abroad for her works of poetry—nearly three-hundred of which were published in literary magazines of her day such as the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, The Literary Digest, Lippincott's, The Century Magazine, and Harper's. Wife of Edward H. Coates.

Works

"Life was mine!

And I, who pass without regret or grief,

Have cared the more to make my moment fine,

Because it was so brief."

Poetry

The following are published works of poetry. For individual poems, see Index of Titles and Index of First Lines.

Poems (1898)
Mine and Thine (1904)
Lyrics of Life (1909)
The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912)
Poems (1916) Collected edition in 2 vols.
Pro Patria (1917) Published privately.

Fugitive verse

Poetry by Florence Earle Coates which appeared in various periodicals or literary collections, but were not included in her above collections.

On Re-reading "The Sick King in Bokhara" (The Literary World, 26 June 1886)
Frederick (The American, 24 November 1888)
Winter the Nursery for Spring Flowers (Meehan's Monthly, January 1896) First published in the April 1895 issue of Woman's Progress under the heading "Helen Bell. February 11, 1895".
Dreyfus (The Independent, 16 February 1899) ("If thou art living, in that Devil's Isle")
McKinley (The Era, October 1901)
The Mourner (Lippincott's, May 1914)
The Brave (Harper's Monthly, April 1915)
The Gods Remember (Harper's Monthly, October 1916)
How Long? (The Wall Street Journal, 23 March 1917) Orig. published in Philadelphia Ledger.
In the Offing (The Minaret, May 1917)
The Smile of Reims (The Bellman, 2 June 1917)
The Kaiser (Fifes and Drums: A Collection of Poems of America at War, 1917)
Sedan (Clarion-Ledger, 2 September 1917)
A Love-Song (The Bellman, 1 December 1917)
Captain Guynemer (A treasury of war poetry, ... 1914-1919, 1917)
Serbia (A treasury of war poetry, ... 1914-1919, 1917)
Giving Thanks (The Unitarian Ledger, 27 December 1917) Orig. published in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, 1917.
In Plains of Picardy (The Protectionist, May 1918) Orig. published in The New York Times 7 April, 1918.
The Comrade (The Washington Herald, 14 June 1918)
A Soldier (The Bellman, 20 June 1918)
For France (Patriotic pieces from the Great War, 1918)
Belgium (The Bellman, 21 September 1918)
The Infantry that Would Not Yield (The Bellman, 14 December 1918)
Their Victory Won (Harper's Monthly, December 1918)
As They Leave Us (Patriotic pieces from the Great War, 1918)
I Too Have Loved (The North American Review, January 1919)
Our Land (Harper's Monthly, April 1919)
In Memory of an American Soldier (The North American Review, June 1919)
In Memory of Henry La Barre Jayne (Henry La Barre Jayne, 1857-1920: In Memoriam, 1920)
Masefield (The North American Review, May 1922)

Articles

"Matthew Arnold" (The Century Magazine, April 1894:931-37)
"Verses by R. W. Gilder" from the Saturday Review of Books and Art: "From Readers" section of The New York Times, 1 November 1902.^[1] Written by Mrs. Coates on 17 Oct 1902.
"The Sappho of Bliss Carman" from The Reader, January 1904 [Reviews] p. 198.
"The Strenuous Life to Blame" from "The Slump in Poetry: Views of Many Poets on the Subject Freely Expressed" (submissions by various authors/publishing companies) (The Critic, March 1905:267)
"Poetry Necessary to All" (Book News Monthly, June 1906:722-3)
"Matthew Arnold: A later estimate, from the point of view of one who knew him well" (Lippincott's Monthly, December 1909:670-74)
"Tribute to James Whitcomb Riley" on his 66th birthday. (The Writer, October 1915:147-148.)

Correspondence

Miscellany

"Easter Remembrance" (1911) 1p. 16mo.; published by F. H. Perin, Brookline, Mass.
The Edward H. Coates Memorial Collection: Presented by Mrs. Coates to The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1923) The exhibition, representing French and American schools, included twenty-seven paintings and three pieces of sculpture. The works were exhibited at the Academy from 4 November 1923 to 10 January 1924 in Gallery A and in the South Corridor.

Lists of works by Coates

Works about Coates

Articles

"Florence Earle Coates" by Ellen Olney Kirk (The Magazine of Poetry, 1889: Vol. 1 No. 3 p. 267-268.)
"Florence Earle Coates," in A Woman of the Century, (ed.) by Frances Elizabeth Willard and Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton (1893)
"Florence Earle Coates" by Jane Campbell (Woman's Progress, May 1895; Vol. 4 No. 6:240-48.)
"Florence Earle Coates" by Harrison S. Morris (Book News Monthly, December 1898; Vol. 17 No. 196:191.)
"A Camp in the Adirondacks: The summer home of Mrs. Florence Earle Coates, the Philadelphia poet" (Book News Monthly, October 1905; Vol. XXIV No. 278:69-72.)
"The Poetry of Florence Earle Coates" by Warwick James Price (The Pathfinder, June 1911; Vol. V No. 6.)
"A Foremost American Lyrist: An Appreciation" by William Stanley Braithwaite (Lippincott's Monthly, March 1913; Vol. 91:296-304.)
"Godlessness Mars Most Contemporary Poetry: Mrs. Coates finds modern poets nervously seeking novelties, and says in art there can be nothing new that is not ugly" by Joyce Kilmer (The New York Times, 10 December 1916.)
"From Florence Coates to Amy Lowell: A Glance at Modernity" by O. W. Firkins (The Nation, 3 May 1917; Vol. 104 No. 2705:522-4.)
"Florence Earle Coates: Some Phases of Her Life and Poetry" by Elizabeth Clendenning Ring (Book News Monthly, Vol. 36 No. 4, December 1917.)
"Florence Earle Coates" by Jane A. Stewart (The Journal of Education, 27 December 1917; Vol. 86 No. 24 (2160):652-3.)
"The Christian Hope—Its Meaning for Today" (Section: From Amos N. Wilder): Religion in Life, Winter issue, 1951-1952; p. 10-19. In this piece, Mr. Wilder mentions a conversation he had with Mrs. Coates where she quotes, "A man's wisdom is measured by his hope."^[2]
"Coates, Florence Van Leer Earle Nicholson" by Robert H. Walker in Notable American Women: 1607-1950 (1971) Volume I.
"Florence Earle Coates: A Poet Inspired by Matthew Arnold" by Gordon Howard (Germantown Crier, V. 63 No. 2 Fall 2013.)

Letters

"To Florence Earle Coates." From Edmund Clarence Stedman to Mrs. Coates (29 December 1904)

Poems

"To Florence Earle Coates" by M. E. R. in City and State (27 November 1902) p. 343.
"Florence Earle Coates" by Isabel S. Mason in Book News (May 1906) p. 671. Incorrectly attributed to "J. S. Mason" in periodical

References

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

This author died in 1927, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 96 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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[1] "Verses by R. W. Gilder"

[2] See also, Letter from Florence Earle Coates to Amos Niven Wilder (25 January 1924)

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