Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

Sarah Flower Adams ( born February 22, 1805 in Harlow, Essex, † August 14 1848 in London) was an English poet.

Life

Her father was a journalist and editor of the magazine The Cambridge Intelligencer and The Political Review, Benjamin Flower (1755-1829), her mother Eliza Gould (1770-1819); both had married in 1800. The first daughter of this marriage, Eliza was born in 1803 and died in 1846. Among the social intercourse in her parents' house belonged, among others, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Browning and Percy Bysshe Shelley. According to the literary atmosphere dominated her parents' house, Sarah turned to acting and writing ( attested their appearance as Lady Macbeth in 1837 ) to.

After her father's death she moved with her sister to London, where a friend of her father, William Johnson Fox, the Unitarian church ( South Place Unitarian Church, Finsbury, London) initiated the reform- minded intellectuals was a meeting at that time. Here she met the journalist and engineer William Bridges Adams, whom she married in 1834.

In addition, she devoted herself to literary work; to William Johnson Fox ' Hymns and Anthems (London 1841), she contributed 14 poems, including " Nearer, my God, to Thee ," which in the second half of the century, to expand a sixth verse of Edward Henry Bickersteth, Jr., and with the melody " Horbury " should be one of the most popular in the English-speaking world at funerals songs Bethany, " the American Lowell Mason backed by John Bacchus Dykes or" and numerous other musical settings, as well as adaptations in other languages ​​experienced. Essentially at this one poem, the subsequent interest in their person builds.

Your seals are kept in a fashionable in their time exalted style of late Romanticism, which has already been ridiculed by his contemporaries as " spasmodic " and already forgotten shortly after the mid-century of the 19th century.

Works

A complete list of her writings, especially their contributions in journals, does not exist.

Drama

  • Vivia Perpetua. A dramatic poem in five acts (London 1841)

Poetry

  • A Summer Recollection (1836 )
  • To My Sister

Religious poems

In W. J. Fox, Hymns and Anthems, London 1841.

  • Creator Spirit! Thou the First
  • Darkness Shrouded Calvary
  • Gently fall the dews of Eve
  • Go and Watch the Autumn Leaves
  • He sendeth sun, He sendeth Shower
  • Nearer, My God, to Thee
  • O Hallowed Memories of the Past
  • O Human Heart! Thou Have a Song
  • O I Would Sing a Song of Praise
  • O Love! Thou makest All Things Even
  • Sing to the Lord! For His Mercies are Sure
  • The World May Change from Old to New

Catechism for children

Collections

  • Sarah Flower Adams, Selections. Ed. by R. Garnet. 1892
  • Sarah Flower Adams, Vivia Perpetua. A dramatic poem in five acts / with a memoir of the author [by EF Bridell -Fox ], and her hymns. London: privately printed in 1893
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