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Dennison Woodcock
A little-known American poet who turned a very long life into plainspoken, reflective verse. His surviving work offers a personal window onto 19th-century rural experience, family life, and old age.
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A Life's Story, In Poetry. Other Poems
by Dennison Woodcock
About the author
Dennison Woodcock is known for A Life's Story, In Poetry. Other Poems, a collection preserved by Project Gutenberg and other public-domain archives. The book presents his life in verse, looking back across childhood, work, family, hardship, and advancing age in a direct, conversational style.
Available genealogy records identify him as having been born on January 15, 1817, in New Hampshire and dying on October 18, 1912, in Liberty, McKean County, Pennsylvania. Those dates fit the autobiographical framing of his poems, which describe a narrator reflecting on more than ninety years of life.
Very little widely documented biographical material about him appears to survive beyond the poems themselves, so his writing remains the clearest picture of the man: thoughtful, personal, and closely tied to everyday American life of the 1800s.