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Lawyers and Poetry

John French Wilson

(1886-1946)
Ohio

"A graduate of Haverford College . . . practicing law in Cleveland."

[Contemporary Verse Anthology: Favorite Poems Selected from the Magazine "Contemporary Verse" 1916-1920 (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1920)]

Wilson's poetry can be found in The Book of the Rhymers' Club (Cleveland: The Rhymers' Club, 1935). His poem, "My son, upon this curving stair," appears in William Stanley Braithwaite (ed.), Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1923 and Yearbook of American Poetry 867 Boston: B.J. Brimmer, Co., 1923)

Poetry

John French Wilson, The Years are Wise and Other Poems (Cleveland, Ohio: The William Feather Company, 1951)

_______________, The Poetry of John French Wilson (Cleveland, Ohio: Rowfant Club, 1965)