Biography Jones Very
- Time Period1813 - 1880
- Place
- CountryUnited States
Poet Biography
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, August 22, 1813; died there, May, 1880. His father was a sea captain and the son went with him upon many voyages. He was educated at Harvard and taught Greek there for a short time after his graduation. He belonged to the Transcendentalist group of writers and was a close friend of Emerson and Channing, and of James Freeman Clarke, who edited the complete posthumous edition of his works.
