Shakespeare, could he read it, would be glad that he was dead". So read one contemporary review of the poems of Julia A. Moore (1847-1920), the Sweet Singer of Michigan.In the late 1870s, this gifted writer of hilarious, bad verse had a national following. Mark Twain even wrote that he always carried with him a copy of Julia's first book of poems, The Sentimental Song Book (1876). "I find in them the same grace and melody that attracted me whe...
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