[mairdie]

Henry Livingston loved women and laughter. Many of these poems were ones I found during my research through the New York newspapers of the time, searching from 1770 to 1830. Some of Henry's poems appear in his poetry manuscript book. When a poem from the book also appeared in a newspaper under the pseudonym R, we knew we could reasonably claim other poems from those same newspapers that used the same pseudonym.

Over the past year, I've been working with Auckland University Professor Emeritus Mac Jackson on a method of statistical analysis that compares the body of guaranteed Henry poetry against a body of random newspaper poets of the time. Then we statistically compare a single poem against those bodies to see if the poem matches Henry's style or not. Mac has gotten one paper out of this work so far, focusing on the phonemes of the poems - where the tongue is moving in the mouth as you recite aloud, an unconscious characteristic a poet doesn't control.

But, for now, there's one book of 14 of the poems illustrated from my vintage postcard collection. Without any modesty, and as an art history/physics major, I have to say that the book is breathtaking.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[JockoManning]

You might enjoy the short haiku type verse linked in my tagline.

[mairdie]

[InterceptPoint]

Worth a look. Plus I never turn down recommendations from art history/physics majors.

But, as I recall I’ve never met one before today.

[Fightin Whitey]

Beautiful post.