Biography Jones Very

Jones Very

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  • 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.