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100 1 _aHowitt, Mary
_q(Mary Botham),
_d1799-1888
245 1 4 _aThe poems of Mary Howitt
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-05-06
508 _aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"The Poems of Mary Howitt" by Mary Howitt is a collection of poetry written in the early to mid-19th century. This volume gathers a variety of Howitt’s verses, blending religious, moral, and domestic themes with narratives and sketches of natural and rural life. The topics explored revolve around charity, faith, family, the beauty of nature, and the nurturing power of Christian virtue, often directed toward young and sensitive readers interested in reflective and uplifting literature. The opening of this collection includes a brief memoir of Mary Howitt, offering insight into her Quaker background, education, and literary partnership with her husband, as well as her emphasis on virtue, kindness, and the genteel qualities of her character and writing. The initial poems and verse tales, such as "The Poor Scholar" and "The Sorrow of Teresa," focus on themes of self-sacrifice, suffering, motherly love, and the embrace of faith amidst hardship. These narrative poems are followed by the beginning of "Marien’s Pilgrimage," an allegorical tale where a young girl, Marien, traverses the world bringing hope, comfort, and Christian charity to the suffering, downtrodden, and oppressed, embodying innocence and the redemptive power of love and goodness in her encounters. This opening sets a tone of warmth, spiritual reflection, compassion, and exemplary living, which permeates the collection. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cPhiladelphia: John Locken, 1844
653 _aEnglish poetry -- 19th century
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/poemsofmaryhowit00howi/page/n13/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76027
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