[Dawson, Miles Menander / Meynell, Alice] Rittenhouse, Jessie B.

The Little Book of American Poets 1787-1900 [Association copy: Inscribed by american Poet and Philosopher Miles Menander Dawson and his wife to english Poet Alice Meynell: “To Mrs. Alice Meynell with the best regards of her friends Mr. + Mrs. Miles M. Dawson”].

First Edition. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. Small Octavo. XX, 306 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very rare and beautiful association between these two Poets.

Fantastic Anthology of American Poetry (with many Women Poets mentioned) from the late 18th to the end of the 19th century.

Listed are Poets like: Paul Laurence Dunbar / William Vaughn Moody (Pandora Song / Of Wounds and Sore Defeat / On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines) / Richard Le Gallienne (What of the Darkness / Flos Aevorum) / Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873-1904) “When the Great Gray Ships come in”/ Lucy Larcom (A Strip of Blue) /Julia C. R. Dorr (To a Late Comer) / Phoebe Cary (Nearer Home / Alas !) / Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878) – “To Edgar Allan Poe” / John Henry Boner (Poe’s Cottage at Fordham) / Louisa May Alcott (Thoreau’s Flute) / etc. etc.


Miles Menander Dawson (May 13, 1863 – 1942) was an American author of poetry and philosophy, and ethics. He wrote books about the teachings of Zoroaster, Socrates, and Confucius. He was a member of the Confucian Society of China.

He was born in Viroqua, Wisconsin on May 13, 1863. Dawson worked as an actuary in New York City. He wrote numerous books and articles on life insurance and actuarial science. In 1905 and 1910 he acted as a lobbyist when bills were being prepared to regulate the insurance industry. In 1908 he was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in Rome. In 1914 he became one of the inaugural Fellows of the American Statistical Association. He died in 1942. (Wikipedia)

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Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell (née Thompson; 11 October 1847 – 27 November 1922) was a British writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. She was considered for the position of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom twice, first in 1892 on the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and later in 1913 on the death of Alfred Austin, but was never appointed to the position.

Meynell and her husband, Wilfrid Meynell, were the owners and editors of several Catholic publications and patrons of the poet Francis Thompson. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: American Literature – Rare · American Poetry · Association Copy · Catalogue No.10 – International Literature · Dawson, Miles Menander · Meynell, Alice · Poetry – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 32458AB

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