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Excerpt from The Poets of Maine: A Collection of Specimen Poems From Over Four Hundred Verse-Makers of the Pine-Tree State, With Biographical SketchesWe regret, though we had authority for so doing, the admission of the name of the late Frances Sargent Osgood, of Boston, into the volume as a native of Maine.A few contributions, received too late for insertion in the body of the work, have been placed upon the last pages of the volume.About the...
Excerpt from The Poets of Maine: A Collection of Specimen Poems From Over Four Hundred Verse-Makers of the Pine-Tree State, With Biographical Sketches
The Hallowell press, in 1797, issued the earliest bound book printed and published in Maine, a thin duodecimo, entitled Female Friend ships, and the first regular work in verse was Gov. Lincoln's volume, entitled The Village, brought out in 1816. The only volumes similar in character to our own...
