{"id":3434,"date":"2017-04-03T18:57:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2017-04-03T18:57:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:57:05","slug":"sonnetslyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2017\/04\/03\/sonnetslyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnets and Lyrics is Featured Book for April"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sonnets<\/a><\/p>\n

April<\/span><\/p>\n

No days such honored days as these!\u00a0While yet<\/span>
\nFair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide<\/span>
\nFor some fair thing which should forever bide<\/span>
\nOn earth, her beautous memory to set<\/span>
\nIn fitting frame that no age could forget,<\/span>
\nHer name in lovely April’s name did hide,<\/span>
\nAnd leave it there, eternally allied<\/span>
\nto all the fairest flowers Spring did beget.<\/span>
\nAnd when fair Aphrodite passed from earth,<\/span>
\nHer shrines forgotten and her feasts of mirth,<\/span>
\nA holier symbol still in seal and sign,<\/span>
\nSweet April took, of kingdom most divine,<\/span>
\nWhen Christ ascended, in the time of birth<\/span>
\nOf spring anemones, in Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n

This piece is from our featured book\u00a0Sonnets & Lyrics\u00a0<\/em>by Helen Hunt Jackson.<\/p>\n

Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Helen Hunt Jackson was orphaned as a child and raised by her aunt. Jackson was sent to private schools and formed a lasting childhood friendship with\u00a0Emily Dickinson.\u00a0Despite a somewhat sporadic education at a series of boarding schools, she was better educated than most women of her time, having exposure to mathematics, science, and philosophy as well as the usual “finishing school” subjects.<\/p>\n

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Jackson began writing s solace after the early deaths of her husband and two sons and\u00a0began her career in 1865 with two poems published in the\u00a0New York Evening Post<\/i>. Hunt emulated other female writers who had successfully met the requirements of publishers catering to female readers. Carefully adhering to the woman’s sphere of domesticity, she stressed in lyrics, essays, and travel sketches the moral and emotional qualities a woman was expected to possess in her role as exemplar to husband and children.<\/p>\n

Once her popularity was established, she added short stories, children’s stories, and novels, published under several pseudonyms but most often simply “H.H.”and published five collections of poetry, including\u00a0Verses<\/em>\u00a0(1870) and\u00a0Easter Bells<\/em>\u00a0(1884), as well as children\u2019s literature and travel books, often using the pseudonyms \u201cH.H.,\u201d \u201cRip van Winkle,\u201d or \u201cSaxe Holm.\u201d<\/p>\n

n 1879, while visiting in Boston, she attended a reception for representatives of the Ponca and Omaha Indian tribes who were touring in an attempt to arouse public indignation over the confiscation of their tribal lands by the U.S. government.\u00a0Moved by a speech given by Chief Standing Bear, Jackson wrote\u00a0A Century of Dishonor\u00a0<\/em>(1881), an expos\u00e9 of the rampant crimes against Native Americans, which led to the founding of the Indian Rights Association. Her subsequent appointment to a federal commission investigating the plight of Indians on missions provided material for her 1884 novel, Ramona<\/em>, a fictionalized account of the plight of Southern California\u2019s dispossessed Mission Indians, inspired by\u00a0Harriet Beecher Stowe\u2019s\u00a0Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em>.<\/p>\n

To read Sonnets & Lyrics visit Special Collections <\/a>located on the second floor of Bartle Library. Special Collections also holds other works by Helen Hunt Jackson including Verses<\/em> and Ramona<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April No days such honored days as these!\u00a0While yet Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide For some fair thing which should forever bide On earth, her beautous memory to set In fitting frame that no age could forget, Her name in lovely April’s name did hide, And leave it there, eternally allied to all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-featured-book"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}