Deborah L. Halliday

The Wind, the Rain, and the Night: Forty Four Poems from Godey's Lady's Book Deborah L. Halliday

Godey?s Lady?s Book was one of the most widely circulated magazines in nineteenth century America. With Louis Godey as publisher and Sarah Josepha Hale as editor, the magazine became an American institution for over forty five years. Read by men and women alike, it boasted a subscriber list not only in every state and territory, but in foreign lands as well. Godey?s is remembered today primarily for its fashion plates, but its readers found much more in it: each monthly issue included editorials, non-fiction, short stories, and poetry. This anthology series aims to collect and present some of the poetry found in Godey?s and in Hale?s earlier publication, the Ladies? Magazine. This current volume includes poems on the wind, the rain, and the night published in the two magazines between 1829 and 1874. Have our experiences of these things changed in the past two centuries? You be the judge. Other volumes in the Godey?s poetry series to date include: In the Time of Mourning Death and Remembrance To the Sea Thoughts Sublime (sonnets) Love