Utah Historical Quarterly Volume 43, Number 1, 1975

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Sarah Elizabeth

Carmichael.

Sarah Elizabeth Carmichael: Poetic Genius of Pioneer Utah BY MIRIAM B. MURPHY

A HE POETRY OF PIONEER Utah lies for the most part forgotten in the periodicals of the day and a few slim volumes of verse preserved in local libraries. While a surprising number of early Utahns wrote poetry, only a handful of their poems survive—most notably in hymns such as the Ms. Murphy is assistant editor of Utah Historical Quarterly.


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