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Lawyers and Poetry

John Ruggles Strong

(1851-1941)
New York

-- "lawyer and poet" --

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

[Strong was a graduate of Columbia University in 1872 and obtained his law degree from Columbia in 1875. Catalogue of officers and graduates of Columbia University] [Strong, according to one source, was born October 20, 1851 in New York City, and died there February 6, 1941. George Templeton Strong, Diary, vol. 4]

Poetry

John R. Strong, Four Sonnets and Disconnected Stanzas (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Privately Printed, 1903)

____________, Sonnets, written as the pastime of a long vacation (Cambridge, Privately printed at The Riverside Press, 1906) [online text]

______________, Poems (1908)

L.C. & J.R. Strong, Revisions and Additions to the Poems and Sonnets of L.C. and J.R. Strong (New York: Priv. Print. at Riverside Press, 1913) [online text]

John R. Strong, Fireside Sonnets (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1916)

Writings

John R. Strong, Note Upon the "Dark Lady" Series of Shakspeare's Sonnets (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921) [online text]