Sarah Orne Jewett, though best known for her classic novels DEEPHAVEN and THE COUNTRY OF POINTED FIRS, wrote poetry throughout much of her career, leaving behind a rich and varied body of work. Apart from a small posthumous volume printed privately at the request of her family, this important part of Jewett's oeuvre has been entirely overlooked.
As revealed in this collection, poetry was for Jewett an intensely personal art--a means to illuminate aspects of her own interior life and chronicle their emotive details. At times as simple and direct as a love song and at others as exalted as a hymn, Jewett's poems bear the imprint of her genius, displaying that rare ability to distill from experience its revelatory core.
THE COMPLETE POEMS OF SARAH ORNE JEWETT is the first comprehensive collection of her poems, most of which have been unavailable since their original publication.
