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Frances Sargent Osgood Criticism (1394 words) |
 | Many critics have contended that Osgood's increasingly rebellious poetic voice was not necessarily the result of artistic maturation; rather, the poet demonstrated such a capacity in many of the unpublished, privately circulated poems throughout her literary career. |
| Osgood was one of the foremost literary celebrities of the 1840s, both for the publication of her poems in the popular magazines of the day and for her sensationalized association with Poe. |
| Osgood with great enthusiasm, but did so in terms which were unwittingly, or perhaps tacitly, an admission of her genuine mediocrity.” For the remainder of the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century, critical interest in the nature of Osgood's relationship to Poe dominated any substantial analysis of her oeuvre. |
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Heath Anthology of American LiteratureFrances Sargent Locke Osgood - Author Page (1142 words) |
| Frances Sargent Locke Osgood was a popular and versatile poet who wrote both in the high sentimental mode and in a mode of sheer mischief. |
| Frances Sargent Locke was born in Boston in 1811 to a prosperous mercantile family with a literary bent, including an older sister, Anna Maria Wells, who was also a published poet. |
| Osgood seems to have seen no contradiction between her published verse and a group of more worldly verses she wrote to be shared with an intimate circle of friendsmost likely at the salons she attended regularly. |
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