Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
February Gems, by Allan R. Darrow
[...]
Sparkling in candescent glory bright,
Shone myriad diamonds in the morning light
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/february-gems-allen-r-darrow.html

#pennyspoems

On 2023-02-18 4:48 p.m., Zod wrote:
> On Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 9:13:01 AM UTC-5, George J. Dance wrote:
>>
>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>> February Gems, by Allan R. Darrow
>> [...]
>> Sparkling in candescent glory bright,
>> Shone myriad diamonds in the morning light
>> [...]
>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/february-gems-allen-r-darrow.html
>>
>> #pennyspoems
>
> Another new poet to me, I found his biography:
>
> https://www.google.com/books/edition/Local_and_National_Poets_of_America/QQ5aAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Allen+R.+Darrow%22+%22poet%22&pg=PA740&printsec=frontcover

An excellent find, Zod. There wasn't a lot to that bio, but it had his
birth date, which is something PPP didn't have. (Ancestry.com had his
death date, but only a year of birth.) So I've added that to the article.

I recognized the name ''Local and National Poets''; that's a reprint of
the 1890 anthology where I found Robert F. Skillings. I checked the 1890
edition -- he was in it, too -- and added that info to his bibliography
as well.

Scholarship lives.

George J. Dance wrote:

> On 2023-02-18 4:48 p.m., Zod wrote:
>> On Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 9:13:01 AM UTC-5, George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>> February Gems, by Allan R. Darrow
>>> [...]
>>> Sparkling in candescent glory bright,
>>> Shone myriad diamonds in the morning light
>>> [...]
>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/february-gems-allen-r-darrow.html
>>>
>>> #pennyspoems
>>
>> Another new poet to me, I found his biography:
>>
>> https://www.google.com/books/edition/Local_and_National_Poets_of_America/QQ5aAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Allen+R.+Darrow%22+%22poet%22&pg=PA740&printsec=frontcover

> An excellent find, Zod. There wasn't a lot to that bio, but it had his
> birth date, which is something PPP didn't have. (Ancestry.com had his
> death date, but only a year of birth.) So I've added that to the article.

> I recognized the name ''Local and National Poets''; that's a reprint of
> the 1890 anthology where I found Robert F. Skillings. I checked the 1890
> edition -- he was in it, too -- and added that info to his bibliography
> as well.

> Scholarship lives.

Great to see obscurity cleared up once again.

On 2023-02-19 7:41 a.m., W-Dockery wrote:
> George J. Dance wrote:
>
>> On 2023-02-18 4:48 p.m., Zod wrote:
>>> On Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 9:13:01 AM UTC-5, George J. Dance
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>>> February Gems, by Allan R. Darrow
>>>> [...]
>>>> Sparkling in candescent glory bright,
>>>> Shone myriad diamonds in the morning light
>>>> [...]
>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/02/february-gems-allen-r-darrow.html
>>>>
>>>> #pennyspoems
>>>
>>> Another new poet to me, I found his biography:
>>>
>>> https://www.google.com/books/edition/Local_and_National_Poets_of_America/QQ5aAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Allen+R.+Darrow%22+%22poet%22&pg=PA740&printsec=frontcover
>
>> An excellent find, Zod. There wasn't a lot to that bio, but it had his
>> birth date, which is something PPP didn't have. (Ancestry.com had his
>> death date, but only a year of birth.) So I've added that to the article.
>
>> I recognized the name ''Local and National Poets''; that's a reprint
>> of the 1890 anthology where I found Robert F. Skillings. I checked the
>> 1890 edition -- he was in it, too -- and added that info to his
>> bibliography as well.
>
>> Scholarship lives.
>
> Great to see obscurity cleared up once again.

I doubt that Darrow or Skillings will every make it into Wikipedia. PPP
may be the only place on the web to find all that information.