Eliza R. Snow Jill Mulvay Derr Karen Lynn Davidson
Edited by Jill Mulvay Derr and Karen Lynn Davidson BYU Studies
Mormon Studies/Poetry Eliza R. Snow first published her poetry pseudonymously in an Ohio newspaper in 1825, when she was twenty-one. Her last poem was published in 1887, when she was eighty-three. In the intervening sixty-two years she wrote more than 500 poems. Her early work covered such various topics as the fight for Greek independence, the plight of the American Indian, and the deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Her themes changed when she joined the...
Edited by Jill Mulvay Derr and Karen Lynn Davidson BYU Studies
Mormon Studies/Poetry Eliza R. Snow first published her poetry pseudonymously in a...