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Hannah Flagg Gould
1789–1865
A popular 19th-century American poet, she wrote clear, musical verses about nature, home, faith, and everyday feeling. Her work was widely read in her lifetime and is still remembered for pieces like "A Name in the Sand."
2 Audiobooks
The Youth's Coronal
by Hannah Flagg Gould
The Mother's Dream, and Other Poems
by Hannah Flagg Gould
About the author
Born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, Hannah Flagg Gould later moved with her family to Newburyport in 1808, where she spent most of the rest of her life. After her mother died, she took on family duties and cared for her father, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, an experience that helped shape the patriotic tone of some of her early writing.
Gould began publishing poetry as an adult, and her first collection, Poems, appeared in the early 1830s. She went on to write numerous volumes of verse and a prose collection, building a large readership with poems that often focused on nature, morality, religion, and domestic life.
She was especially admired in the 19th century for short lyric poems and writing for young readers. Today she is best known as one of the widely read American women poets of her era, with a style that is direct, gentle, and closely tied to New England life.