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• Guiterman, Arthur. Betel Nuts. San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1907. LSansk G968bet.E Robarts Library
• --. A Book of Hospitalities and a Record of Guests. San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1910.
• --. The Laughing Muse. New York: Harper, 1915.
• --. The Mirthful Lyre. New York: Harper, 1918.
• --. Ballads of Old New York. New York: Harper, 1920.
• --. Chips of Jade. New York: Dutton, 1920.
• --. A Ballad-Maker's Pack. New York: Harper, 1921.
• --. The Light Guitar. New York: Harper, 1923.
• --. A Poet's Proverbs. New York: Dutton, 1924.
• --. I Sing the Pioneer. New York: Dutton, 1926.
• --. Wildwood Fables. New York: Dutton, 1927.
• --. Song and Laughter. New York: Dutton, 1929.
• --. Death and General Putnam and 101 Other Poems. New York: Dutton, 1935.
• --. Gaily the Troubadour. New York: Dutton, 1936.
• --. Lyric Laughter. New York: Dutton, 1939.
• --. Brave Laughter. New York: Dutton, 1943.

• The Poems of Philip Freneau. Ed. L. Pattee. New York: Russell & Russell, 1963.
• The Final Poems of Philip Freneau (1827-1827). Delmar, NY: Scholars Facsimiles & Reprints, 1979.
• Poems Written Between the Years 1768 & 1794. Delmar, NY: Scholars Facsimiles & Reprints, 1976.
• A Collection of Poems on American Affairs and a Variety of Other Subjects Chiefly Moral and Political (1815). Delmar, NY: Scholars Facsimiles & Reprints, 1976.
• Poems Written During the American Revolutionary War. Delmar, NY: Scholars Facsimiles & Reprints, 1976.
• Poems. ed. H. H. Clark. New York: Hafner Pub. Co., 1960.
• The Last Poems of Philip Freneau. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1945.

• Fairbanks, Henry G. Louise Imogen Guiney. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1973.
• Contemporary Authors Online. Gale Group, 2003.

• Fredericksen, Elaine. "Wylie, Elinor." American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Gray, Thomas A. Elinor Wylie. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1969.

Margaret E. Sangster was born Margaret Munson on February 22, 1838, in New Rochelle, New York, and attended schools in Paterson, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, New York. She gave up an early career in writing when she married George Sangster in 1858. At his death in 1871, she returned to writing, becoming associate editor of Hearth and Home. In 1875, she edited "Christian at Work" and then the "Christian Intelligencer," in 1882 "Harper's Young People," and from 1889 to 1899 "Harper's Bazaar." She was a prolific writer of fiction and verse, famous for such poems as "Are the Children at Home?" A member of the Dutch Reformed Church, she died blind on June 4, 1912, in South Orange, New Jersey. She described her life in An Autobiography: From My Youth Up; Personal Reminiscences (1909).

• American Authors 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature. Ed. Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1938. 669-70.
• The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. VI. New York: James T. White, 1896. 169.
• Sangster, Margaret E. Poems of the Household. 1882.
• --. On the Road Home: Poems. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893.
• --. Lyrics of Love of Hearth & Home and Field and Garden. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1901.
• --. Cross Roads. New York: Frank Lovell, Bible House, 1919.

John Boyle O'Reilly, the greatest Irishman in America at the time of his death, was born at Douth Castle, Drogheda, Ireland, on June 28, 1844. After an education at the National School, and an early career in journalism, he enlisted in the Hussars and became a Fenian. Discovery of his revolutionary sympathies led to his trial for high treason and finally to exile in the penal colony in Australia. He escaped Australia by boat and made his way to America, first Philadelphia, and then Boston, where he worked for the Pilot, a newspaper of which he eventually became editor. O'Reilly published two volumes of poems, Songs of the Southern Seas (1873) and Songs, Legends, and Ballads (1878), as well as several novels. He worked tirelessly to integrate the Roman Catholic Irish community into Protestant Boston. At his death on August 10, 1890, from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills, he left his wife Mary Murphy O'Reilly and four daughters. Daniel Chester French's memorial statue of O'Reilly stands today in Fenway Park, Boston, a testimony to the pride of its Irish natives in a poet buried in Hollyhood Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Isa Craig, born Oct. 17, 1831, in Edinburgh, was largely self-educated in literature. By 1853, she worked at and contributed poems to the newspaper the Scotchman. Her first book, Poems by Isa, came out in 1856. She left Scotland for London in 1857, where she was employed as secretary for the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science. Her most famous poem was an ode on Burns, which won a prize at the Crystal Palace in 1858. Two more books, Poems: An Offering to Lancashire and Duchess Agnes, a Drama, and Other Poems, followed in 1863 and 1864. She left the Association to marry her cousin, John Knox, in 1866. Her final book of poems, Songs of Consolation, was published in 1874, though she had turned by then to write schoolbooks on English history. She died at Brockley, Suffolk, on Dec. 23, 1903.

• B., T. "Knox, Mrs. Isa." Dictionary of National Biography.

Thomas Pringle was born January 5, 1789, in Blaiklaw, Roxburghshire, and educated at Kelso and afterwards, in 1805, at Edinburgh University. He became clerk, Commissioner of the Public Records of Scotland, and co-editor, Edinburgh Monthly Magazine and Constable's Magazine, in 1817. He married Margaret Brown on July 19 in that year and published his first book of poems, The Autumnal Excursion, in 1819. When he was 30 years old, they led a party including his brother, father, and stepmother, and her sister, to South Africa. They departed on February 18, 1820, and arrived on June 29 at Eildon Kloof, close to present Glen Lynden district. After the settlement had laid down good roots, he went to Cape Town in September 1822 to become Government Librarian. By 1824 he had become co-editor of the South African Commercial Advertiser and had opened a school. Two years later he left South Africa for London, where he did literary work and served as Secretary to the Anti-Slavery Society until his death on December 5, 1834. He is buried in Bunhill Fields, London. In those final years Pringle saw a half dozen of his poems published in George Thompson's Travels and Adventures (1827). One reader was Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who wrote Pringle that he believed his poem, "Afar in the Desert," was one of the "two or three most perfect lyric Poems" in English. Pringle brought out a second book of poems, Ephemerides, in 1828, and at last a major book, African Sketches (1834), which brought together his (often revised) poems and a narrative of his residence in South Africa.

• African Poems of Thomas Pringle, ed. Ernest Pereira and Michael Chapman (Durban: University of Natal Press, 1989). PR 5190 P3A57 1989 Robarts Library
• Doyle, John Robert. Thomas Pringle (New York: Twayne, 1972). PR 5190 P3Z6 Robarts Library
• Marchand, Marion. Index to the Poems of Thomas Pringle 1789-1834 (School of Librarianship, University of Witwatersrand, 1960).
• Meiring, Jane. Thomas Pringle: His Life and Times. Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1968. DT 844 .2 P7M3 Robarts Library
• Pringle, Thomas. African Sketches (London: Edward Moxon, 1834). 010097.e.63 British Library
• --. The Autumnal Excursion, or, Sketches in Teviotdale; with Other Poems (Edinburgh: Constable, 1819).
• --. Ephemerides, or, Occasional poems, written in Scotland and South Africa (London: Smith, Elder, 1828). Victoria University Rare Books no. 105
• --. Glen-Lynden: A Tale of Teviotdale (London: Smith, Elder, 1828).
• -- and Robert Story. The Institute: A Heroic Poem in Four Cantos (Edinburgh: W. McWilliam, 1811).
• Thomas Pringle: His Life, Times, and Poems, ed. William Hay (Cape Town: J. C. Juta, 1912). 11611.l.16 British Library