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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY
First Line: A strong and simple-souled ohio boy
Last Line: So triumphed this firm-fibred westerner.
Subject(s): Editors; Howells, William Dean (1837-1920); Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists
First Line: A strong and simple-souled ohio boy
Last Line: So triumphed this firm-fibred westerner.
Subject(s): Editors; Howells, William Dean (1837-1920); Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists
A strong and simple-souled Ohio boy
Who came to be a Cambridge gentleman,
Printer, reporter, editor, and then
The realist observer of mankind.
Nothing unreal had value in his view
Except by way "of sportive interlude"
And everything had value that was real:
So triumphed this firm-fibred Westerner.
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