| I’ve been choosing names at random from a list of about 800 American poets from the 19th century and then sharing info about their lives and work. Recent posts have discussed Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles Dickinson, Hezekiah Butterworth, Rossiter Johnson, M. E. Banta, and Horace Biddle. I have three others to mention today, and then I’ll move on to other topics, though I don’t have a lot of details for these three. One of the names I selected from the list was “Oringe Smith Crary” – because who names their child “Oringe”? And BTW: How does one pronounce “Oringe”? Does it rhyme with “Orange”? LOL. I found out that OSC was a poet and an abolitionist, and that he helped with the Underground Railroad. I could not find any of his poetry online to sample; however, I did find his book “Poetical Works” for sale, HERE. |  |
I also checked out the “Goodale Sisters,” Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) and Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953).
Elaine Goodale taught at the Indian Department of Hampton Institute, started a day school on a Dakota reservation in 1886, and was appointed as Superintendent of Indian Education for the Two Dakotas by 1890.
The Hampton Institute info was of interest to me as my wife and I had learned of the US government’s efforts to assimilate American Indians into “civilized” society when we visited the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. The museum’s exhibit, "Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories" (info HERE), tells how our government removed children from their families and placed them in government-operated boarding schools in the late 1800s. We were shocked to learn that one of the schools involved was in our state of Virginia at Hampton Institute. The "Wigwam,” an 1878 structure built to house Native American students at HI, still stands. It later became the Administration Building and is now a National Historic Landmark.
The Hampton Institute info was of interest to me as my wife and I had learned of the US government’s efforts to assimilate American Indians into “civilized” society when we visited the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. The museum’s exhibit, "Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories" (info HERE), tells how our government removed children from their families and placed them in government-operated boarding schools in the late 1800s. We were shocked to learn that one of the schools involved was in our state of Virginia at Hampton Institute. The "Wigwam,” an 1878 structure built to house Native American students at HI, still stands. It later became the Administration Building and is now a National Historic Landmark.
I also found out that in the HBO film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007), Elaine Goodale was portrayed by the actress Anna Paquin.
On Dora Read Goodale, the Wikipedia page states that she “published a book of poetry at age 21 and continued to write. She became a teacher of art and English in Connecticut. Later she was a teacher and director of the Uplands Sanatorium in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee. She attracted positive reviews when she published her last book of poetry at age 75 in 1941, in which she combined modernist free verse with the use of Appalachian dialect to express her neighbors' traditional lives.”
In 1950 Goodale Eastman donated her papers to Smith College, where she had earned her undergraduate degree, and the college’s site states that correspondences make up approximately one-third of the donated papers. The bulk of the correspondence is between family members and other notable correspondents including – a drum roll please – Thomas Wentworth Higginson. I would love to know what Ms. Eastman and Mr. Higginson discussed.
I found various poems by the Goodales on this site, HERE – two by Elaine Goodale and six by Dora, along with poems from a handful of other poets, some well-known, some not It’s a bit of an odd find, from a company called “pattern based writing dot com” that offers, “the fastest, most effective way to teach clear, organized paragraph and multi-paragraph writing. Guaranteed.”
I’ll be honest, I did not look through the site with any sort of critical eye, but I’m highly suspect of any company that offers easy answers; however, the focus today is on the company’s PDF, “Classic Summer Poems Collection,” the pages of the Goodale’s (and others’) poetry.
The sister’s poetry is primarily characterized by a focus on nature with an abundance of sensory imagery and simple language.
On Dora Read Goodale, the Wikipedia page states that she “published a book of poetry at age 21 and continued to write. She became a teacher of art and English in Connecticut. Later she was a teacher and director of the Uplands Sanatorium in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee. She attracted positive reviews when she published her last book of poetry at age 75 in 1941, in which she combined modernist free verse with the use of Appalachian dialect to express her neighbors' traditional lives.”
In 1950 Goodale Eastman donated her papers to Smith College, where she had earned her undergraduate degree, and the college’s site states that correspondences make up approximately one-third of the donated papers. The bulk of the correspondence is between family members and other notable correspondents including – a drum roll please – Thomas Wentworth Higginson. I would love to know what Ms. Eastman and Mr. Higginson discussed.
I found various poems by the Goodales on this site, HERE – two by Elaine Goodale and six by Dora, along with poems from a handful of other poets, some well-known, some not It’s a bit of an odd find, from a company called “pattern based writing dot com” that offers, “the fastest, most effective way to teach clear, organized paragraph and multi-paragraph writing. Guaranteed.”
I’ll be honest, I did not look through the site with any sort of critical eye, but I’m highly suspect of any company that offers easy answers; however, the focus today is on the company’s PDF, “Classic Summer Poems Collection,” the pages of the Goodale’s (and others’) poetry.
The sister’s poetry is primarily characterized by a focus on nature with an abundance of sensory imagery and simple language.
| Think of the range of music students would encounter when learning to play the piano, moving from the most elementary arrangements to those pieces in the recital repertoire composed by the classic composers. The Goodale sisters’ poetry would be like some of those early, easy-to-play pieces as one progresses to more complicated works. The collection is provided by Patternbasedwriting .com, but I wonder how they recommend introducing and using the poems with students? There are no teaching strategies indicated – it’s just the collection of poems. There’s even one by Dickinson on page 6 – a bit of an odd choice, if you ask me, a love poem with an erotic turn in the second stanza. LOL – what are your thoughts on that? |  |
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