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Lawyers and Poetry

John Alexander Joyce

(1842-1915)
Kentucky, Washington D.C., Missouri

"Joyce, John Alexander, soldier, lawyer, poet, and biographer,
b. Ireland, 1842; d. Washington, D.C.., Jan. 1915."

[W. Stewart Wallace (ed.), A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased Before 1950 243 (Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1951)]

"Seldom has a man of forty run the gauntlet of waif, scholar, lunatic, solidier, schoolmaster, poet, politician, oreator, lawyer, prisoner and patrior.

He that runs may read, ponder, and beware."

/signed/ "J.A.J"

John A. Joyce, A Checkered Life preface (Chicago: S.P. Rounds, Jr., 1883)

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John A. Joyce, Complete Poems of Col. John A. Joyce
(Washington [D.C.]: Neale Co., 1900)

Poetry

John A. Joyce, Complete Poems of Col. John A. Joyce (Washington [D.C.]: Neale Co., 1900)

___________, Peculiar Poems (New York: T.R. Knox & Co., 1885) [online text]

Writings

John A. Joyce, A Checkered Life (Chicago: S.P. Rounds, Jr., 1883) [online text]

___________, Book Nazer: (a zig-zag philosophy)(Chicago: Universal Pub. Co., 1893)

____________, Jewels of Memory (Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., 1896) [online text]

____________, Oliver Goldsmith (Washington, [D.C.]: Neale Co., 1900) [online text]

____________, Edgar Allan Poe (New York: F.T. Neely Co., 1901)([Folcroft, Pennsylvania]: Folcroft Library Editions, 1974)( Norwood, Pennyslvania: Norwood Editions, 1977)

____________, Beautiful Washington (Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., 1903) [online text]

____________, Shakspere, Personal Recollections (New York: Broadway Publishing Co., 1904) [online text]

____________, Truth (Chicago: Regan Printing and Pub. House, 1908)(Chicago: Regan Printing and Pub. Co., 2nd ed., 1909) [online text]

____________, Robert Burns (Chicago: Regan Print. and Pub. House, 1910) [online text]

 



frontis photograph

John A. Joyce, A Checkered Life
(Chicago: S.P. Rounds, Jr. 1883)

frontis engraving

Colonel John A. Joyce, Peculiar Poems
(New York: Thomas R. Knox & Co., 1885)

frontis photograph

John A. Joyce, Jewels of Memory
(Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., Publishers, 1896)