Talk:Florence Van Leer Earle Coates

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I am in the process of creating an introductory biography of poet Florence Earle Coates. Thank you for your patience and consideration.Londonjackbooks (talk) 16:42, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've downgraded the speedy deletion to a notability tag, as I take published poet as being an assertion of importance. Ϣere SpielChequers 17:07, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

At least in terms of publications by and about, this person must be considered a minor poet, at best. I agree that publication is a sign of notability. However, if you look at the [WorldCat Identities] page for this person, you get a picture of her importance, which is that her poems have not been republished since 1920, and only two publications have included a poem of hers in recent years (you have to click on the orange bar to retrieve the records). Compare this to the page on [Emily Dickinson] and you can see a huge difference. I am not opposed to including Coates, but one must have a sense of proportion.

I would like to see the "refs" that are unsourced comments removed. Any unsourced data should not be included.LaMona (talk) 16:17, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Florence Van Leer Earle Coates (July 1, 1850 – April 6, 1927) was an American poet. She became well known, both at home and abroad, for her works of poetry, nearly three hundred of which were published in literary magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Magazine, The Literary Digest, Lippincott's, The Century Magazine, and Harper's Magazine. She was encouraged by Matthew Arnold with whom she maintained a correspondence until his death in 1888. Many of her nature poems were inspired by the flora and fauna of the Adirondacks, where the Coates family spent their summer months at "Camp Elsinore" beside Upper St. Regis Lake; here they entertained many friends such as Otis Skinner, Violet Oakley, Henry Mills Alden, and Agnes Repplier.

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'Fugitive verse'?[edit]

Coates also penned several other works of fugitive verse...

This needs defining. I don't think it's an established genre. Valetude (talk) 03:08, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This article provides clarification, 'fugitive verse' meant ephemeral or occasional verse (see wikt:fugitive), typically published in newspapers. The linked article is a draft for an article in a peer-reviewed journal[1], but unfortunately the final article is behind a paywall. In my view you could cite the draft article, but if you can access the final article then it would be preferable to cite that. Verbcatcher (talk) 21:00, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Election to the laureateship[edit]

Coates was unanimously elected poet laureate of Pennsylvania by the state's Federation of Women's Clubs.

Why would the women's clubs be electing the poet laureate? It would normally be a literary society or the state senate. It would have been notable enough for a woman to receive the honour at all in those days. But what is the connection? Valetude (talk) 03:21, 26 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]