Florence Earle Coates
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican writer and poet (1850-1927)
Florence Van Leer Nicholson Coates was an American poet whose prolific output was published in dozens of literary magazines, some of it set to music. She was mentored by the English poet Matthew Arnold, with whom she maintained a lasting friendship.
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Coates, pre-1894![Tulip-tree"My remembrance of our last visit and of your tulip-trees and maples I shall never lose ..." - Matthew Arnold, in a letter to Coates[5]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Liriodendron_tulipifera_-_Hamburg_%282%29.jpg/1280px-Liriodendron_tulipifera_-_Hamburg_%282%29.jpg)
Tulip-tree"My remembrance of our last visit and of your tulip-trees and maples I shall never lose ..." - Matthew Arnold, in a letter to Coates[5]
Upper St. Regis Lake There's a lake upon
the mountains... - FEC
Invitation to the 1895-96 Browning Society elections, the year Coates was elected president.
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Florence Van Leer Nicholson Coates was an American poet whose prolific output was published in dozens of literary magazines, some of it set to music. She was mentored by the English poet Matthew Arnold, with whom she maintained a lasting friendship. She was famous for her many nature poems, inspired by the flora and fauna of the Adirondacks, where she and her husband Edward Hornor Coates maintained a summer camp. She was elected poet laureate by the State Federation of Women's Clubs (Pennsylvania) in 1915.
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