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John Godfrey Saxe
"John G. Saxe was born at Highgate, Franklin County, Vermont, June 2, 1816. He was graduated at Middlebury College in 1839, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and has since been engaged in the practice of the profession in his native State. "In 1849 Mr. Saxe published a volume of Poems including Progress, a Satire, originally delivered at a college commencement, and a number of shorter pieces, many of which had previously appeared in the Knickerbocker Magazine. "In the same year Mr. Saxe delivered a poem on The Times before the Boston Mercantile Library Association. This production is included in the enlarged edition of his volume, in 1852. He has since frequently appeared before the public on college and other anniversaries, as the poet of the occasion, well armed with the light artillery of jest and epigram." [Evert A. & George L. Duyckinck, The Cyclopedia of American Literature 563 (Philadelphia: William Rutter & Co., 1880)(Vol. 2)] John Godfrey
Saxe John
Godfrey Saxe "The
Vermont Bard"
frontispiece John G. Saxe, The Money-King and Other Poems
Poems [Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant] [Orpheus and Eurydice ] [Polyphemus and Ulysses] [Sonnet to a Clam] [Bereavement] [Early Rising] [Love Crowned] ["With my body I thee worship"] [How Cyrus Laid the Cable] [Rhyme of the Rail ] [The Proud Miss MacBride, a Legend of Gotham]
Poetry John G. Saxe, Progress: A Satirical Poem (New York: J. Allen, 1846)(New York: J. Allen; Boston: Jordan & Wiley, 2nd ed., 1847) __________, Poems (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850)(Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, new ed., 1852) [online text] (5th ed., 1854)(8th ed., 1855)(11th ed., 1860)(29th ed., 1864)(31st ed., 1866)(Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 32nd ed., 1866) [online text] (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868) [online text] (Boston: Fields, Osgood, Highgate ed., 35th ed., 1871) __________, The Money-King, and Other Poems (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859)(Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860) [online text] [online text] __________, The Fly-ing Dutchman; or, the Wrath of Herr Vonstoppelnoze (New York: Carleton, 1862) __________, Clever Stories of Many Nations (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865)(1864)(W. L. Champney illustrations) __________, The Masquerade and Other Poems (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866) [online text] [online text] [online text] __________, Poems (Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co., 1868)(Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869)(Highgate ed., 1871)(Complete ed., 1873)(Highgate ed., 1873)(Highgate ed., 1876)(Boston: Houghton, Osgood, and Company, 57th ed., 1879) __________, Fables and Legends of Many Countries (Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1872) __________, The Proud Miss MacBride. A Legend of Gotham (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874)(Augustus Hoppin illustrations) [online text] [online text] [online text] __________, Leisure-Day Rhymes (Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1875) __________, The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880)(Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Complete ed., 1882) __________, The Poetical Works of John Godfrey Saxe (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, Household ed., 1882)(Household ed., 1892) __________, The Poetical Works (Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1889) Law Poetry Anthologies John Godfrey Saxe, "The Briefless Barrister," "How the Lawyers got a Patron Saint," "The Lawyer's Valentine," and "On an Ill-read Lawyer," in Ina Russelle Warren (ed.), The Lawyer's Alcove: Poems by the Lawyer, for the Lawyer and about the Lawyer 127-129, 168-169, 231-232, 249 (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1900)(Buffalo, New York: William S. Hein & Co., 1990) Law Related Poems "On an Ill-Read Lawyer," in John G. Saxe, Poems 87 (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, New ed., 1853)(an epigram) "How the Lawyers Got a Patron Saint," in John G. Saxe, The Money-King and Other Poems 91-93 (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860) "Love and Law," in John G. Saxe, The Poetical Works of John Godfre Saxe 17-19 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company/The Riverside Press Cambridge, Household ed., 1892) "The Briefless Barrister," in id., at 20. "The Lawyer's Valentine," in id., at 85. Writings John Godfrey Saxe, A Treatise on the New York Laws Relating to Elections (New York: Baker, Voorhis & Co., 1913)(Albany: J.B. Lyon Co., final ed., 1918) [online text] Bibliography Russell W. Taft, John Godfrey Saxe: A Biographical Sketch of Vermont's Lawyer, Journalist, Lecturer and Rhymster (Burlington, Vermont: privately printed, 1900)
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