Frederick Goddard Tuckerman | |
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 Engraving of F.G. Tuckerman as a young man | |
| Born | February 4, 1821 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | May 9, 1873 Greenfield, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Literary movement | Romantic |
| Spouse | Hannah Lucinda Jones |
| Relatives | Edward Tuckerman (brother) Samuel Parkman Tuckerman (brother) Sophia May Eckley(sister) Henry Theodore Tuckerman (cousin) |
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (February 4, 1821 – May 9, 1873) was an American poet, remembered mostly for his sonnet series. Apart from the 1860 publication of his book Poems, which included approximately two-fifths of his lifetime sonnet output and other poetic works in a variety of forms, the remainder of his poetry was published posthumously in the 20th century. Attempts by several 20th century scholars and critics to spark wider interest in his life and works have met with some success and Tuckerman is now included in several important anthologies of American poetry.[1] Though his works appear in 19th century anthologies of American poetry and sonnets, this reclusive contemporary of Emily Dickinson, sometime correspondent of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and acquaintance of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, remains in relative obscurity.
- ^ Ferguson, Margaret; Salter, Mary Jo (7 December 2004). The Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393979206. Retrieved 3 October 2015.