biography
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Markham, (Charles Edward Anson) Edwin
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| lived:
| (1852–1940)
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| biography:
| Poet and editor, born in Oregon City, Oregon, USA. He studied briefly at Christian College, Santa Rosa, CA, then taught in California (1875–1901). After the sudden success of ‘The Man with the Hoe’ (1899), a poem inspired by Jean-Francois Millet's painting, and ‘Lincoln, the Man of the People’ (1901), he moved to Staten Island, New York, and spent the rest of his life writing and lecturing, but never again attaining the recognition he gained from these two poems. |
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