Reese, Lizette Woodworth

▪ American poet

born Jan. 9, 1856, Baltimore county, Md., U.S.

died Dec. 17, 1935, Baltimore, Md.

American poet whose work draws on the images of her rural childhood.

After growing up on the outskirts of Baltimore, Reese began teaching at the parish school of St. John's Episcopal Church in Waverly, Maryland, in 1873; she continued teaching English in Baltimore public schools until her retirement in 1921.

Reese's lyric talent was strikingly evident in her first book, A Branch of May (1887); it was followed by A Handful of Lavendar (1891). Her fresh images, condensed form, and sincerity of emotion broke with conventional sentimentality and foreshadowed 20th-century lyricism. Her best-known poem is the sonnet “Tears,” published in 1899 in Scribner's magazine and widely anthologized. The Selected Poems (1926) was followed by several other volumes of verse and by two books of reminiscences, A Victorian Village (1929) and The York Road (1931), as well as a posthumous novel, Worleys (1936).

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