poems poems published work american writer short collection poems published today believed copies collection exist abandoned foster family moved boston find work having minor success enlisted united_states_army brought manuscripts paid printer named publish page collection called poems include distribution limited copies received critical attention poems largely inspired lord including long title poem depicts historical loss romance like future work poems poems include themes love death pride published collection rare death believed existed found recognized editions american literature background unable complete studies gambling debts left university march strained relationship foster father grew worse determined boston born biological mother died object left painting city written little son love boston place birth mother found best sympathetic friends merchant richmond virginia refused foster son trip likely got money foster mother aware decision whereabouts concerned wrote thinking gone sea seek fortunes arriving boston april served briefly clerk wholesale merchandise warehouse waterfront office clerk reporter obscure newspaper weeks desperation enlisted united_states_army year term pseudonym gave age likely needed parental consent assigned stationed boston harbor fort independence point written poetry earliest lines verse labeled poetry presumably written book foster father company lines read night cares weary laid couch rest earliest known length poem satirical poem authorship subject dispute calling poet working longer poems manuscripts brought boston publication history spring turned manuscripts year old printer named family known birth parents thomas previously printed labels small jobs money pay publication poems page collection poems known book printed thomas collection pamphlet sized inches years old collection released july copies printed total production number subject dispute scholars believe number slightly lower copies substantially higher poems published anonymously credit granted typically listed published work second collection late chosen foster father know choice embrace heritage attempt distance family richmond boston time center publishing literary world time book released army introduced collection notice admitting low quality poems said intended published published concerns author claimed majority poems written author completed fourteenth year assumed low circulation collection attract readers later career suggesting poetry book suppressed circumstances private nature second collection included revised versions poems poems distribution poems light claimed existed noting found known copy turned second found type copy held edited introduced published limited edition copy poems published provided introduction correction additions found subsequent publication themes poems theme youth inspired works largest inspiration came work lord character title poem daughter named named daughter admired poetry rebellious personality blamed interest biographers suggest wandering boston joining army represent need live like inspired title poem depicts dying regrets leaving childhood sweetheart home pursue ambitions original form based historical lines choice eastern character unusual time written works autobiographical overtones suggest based poem loss early love birth mother poem mirror relationship foster father similar uncertain poems admitted written young knowledge world breast poems present poet solitary figure faced unnamed transforming childhood event adopted common themes day including imagery heavenly bliss beauty steps away typical use time instead focuses psychological aesthetics beginning lifelong poetic refusal write masses continue themes death beauty love pride later works later rewrite poem imitation dream dream use images evening star critical reception poems virtually ignored received significant critical attention publication public notice mention title couple lists recent books listed august listed october listed poems catalogue american poetry section volume anthology literary historian suggests american reading public period interested fiction poetry despite lack attention publication poems gave young confidence continue writing popular raven reviewer saw parts poems commented poems written youth matter written best preserved eye writer modern scholar said collection save poems distinctly work biographer wrote perfection marked great lyrics course present promise quinn credits publishing collection poetry slightly older contemporaries popular poets including holmes scholar distant relative wrote collection include great poetry added trumpet blast announcing new poet stepped stage believed dozen copies original printing poems remain making editions american literature ironically value copy today money lifetime rarity recognized ran article titled attic article ran woman worcester massachusetts named searched found copy prompting search today surviving copies owned libraries museums copies example purchased new_york copy display collection richmond virginia copies command high prices sold auction later sold december copy collection sold new_york record price paid work american literature content work originally published table contents later editions commentary use titles lines identify poems content reworked occasionally retitled later collections preface pages iii poems known fugitive pieces known song dreams visits dead known spirits dead evening star imitation untitled poem youth known untitled poem birth dream untitled poem day hour day lake author
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