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John Whittaker Watson was a 19th century poet and journalist from New York. The author of many serials, poems and short stories published in various magazines, today he is probably best known for his poem โBeautiful Snow.โ It is found in the collection of poems by the same title, published in Philadelphia in 1871.
Reading this poem, you immediately find yourself in a wintery nature setting. What T. W. Higginson describes is just a fleeting moment: a wonderful snapshot captured in words.
In this post Iโll share with you some of my favourite books with a dreamy wintertime setting. For the past few years we havenโt had much snow in my neck of the woods, but thereโs plenty of it in these titles!
Charles Turner Dazey was an American writer and playwright born in Lima, Illinois, in 1855. He wrote a number of successful plays, also leaving a mark in the early film history as a writer of numerous silent films. He died in Quincy in 1938; sadly, his works quickly became forgotten. Charles T. Dazey I chose …
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