Charles Follen Adams

Charles Follen Adams (21 April 1842 in Dorchester, Massachusetts – 8 March 1918) was an American poet.[1][2]

Charles Follen Adams
Portrait of Charles F. Adams (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1878)
BornApril 21, 1842
Dorchester, Massachusetts
DiedMarch 8, 1918(1918-03-08) (aged 75)
OccupationAmerican poet
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAdams enlisted in the 13th Massachusetts Infantry during the American Civil War. He was wounded in action at Gettysburg, and taken as a prisoner of war.
Notable works
  • 1878: Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems
  • 1885: Mother's Doughnuts
  • 1886: Cut, Cut Behind
  • 1887: Dialect Ballads
  • 1910: Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems

Biography

He received a common school education, and at the age of fifteen entered into mercantile pursuits. During the American Civil War, at age 22, Adams enlisted in the 13th Massachusetts Infantry.[3] He was wounded in action at Gettysburg, and taken as a prisoner of war.[4][5] On his release from prison, he was detailed for hospital duty.[3]

In 1872, he began writing humorous verses for periodicals and newspapers in a burlesque broken-English imitation[6] of Pennsylvania German dialect.[5] His first published work was “The Puzzled Dutchman” which appeared in Our Young Folks.[3]

Works

Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

gollark: The irony is that the copypastas advertise pizza *far* more than me.
gollark: Looks like a webhook.
gollark: Despite the importance of accurate time for computers basically nobody actually uses secure time sync.
gollark: If it is "turned off" per device you can trivially change MAC address, although if it just disconnects anyone ever that would probably be harder and you'd either need access to the controls for that or some kind of NTP spoofing.
gollark: I know.

References
  1. Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918. Papers: Guide
  2. Charles Follen Adams at Britannica Online Encyclopedia
  3. Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Adams, Charles Follen" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
  4. Dorchester Atheneum: Charles Follen Adams
  5. Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Adams, Charles Follen" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
  6. Mehring, Frank (2006). "Deutsch, Dutch, Double Dutch: Authentic and Artificial German-American Dialects". Amerikastudien / American Studies. 51.1: 93–113.
  7. Adams, Charles Follen (Harper's Magazine)
  8. "Mother's doughnuts" by Charles Follen Adams (Harper's Magazine)
  9. "“Cut, cut behind!”" by Charles Follen Adams (Harper's Magazine)
  10. https://archive.org/stream/newinternational01gilm#page/102/mode/1up
  11. Quint, Wilder D. (1897-12-18). "VII. Charles Follen Adams ("Yawcob Strauss") in Roxbury". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
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