JOAQUIN See also:MILLER (See also:CINCINNATUS See also:HEINE) (1841- )
, See also:American poet, was See also:born in See also:Indiana, on the loth of See also:November 1841, and was educated for the See also:law
.
After some experiences of See also:mining and journalism in See also:Idaho and See also:Oregon, he settled down in 1866 as See also:judge in See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant See also:county, Oregon, and during his four years' See also:tenure of this See also:post he began to write See also:verse
.
In 187o he travelled in See also:Europe, and in 1871 he published his first See also:volume of See also:poetry, full of tropical See also:passion, Songs of the Sierras, on which his reputation mainly rests
.
His Songs of the Sunlands (1873) followed in the same vein, and after other volumes had appeared, his Collected Poems were published in 1882
.
He also wrote plays, The Danites in the Sierras having some success as a sensational See also:melodrama
.
On his return from Europe he became a journalist in See also:Washington, but in 1887 returned to See also:California
.
His See also:pen-name, " Joaquin See also:Miller," by which he is known, was assumed by him when he published his first See also:book, in consequence of his having written an See also:article in See also:defence of Joaquin Murietta, the Mexican brigand
.
Revised See also:editions of his See also:Complete Poetical See also:Works appeared at See also:San Francisco in 1902
.
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