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Short Bio/Highlights
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Joaquin Miller was, America’s best loved poet, diarist, and storyteller. His life was an adventure, from his pioneer childhood to his literary heights and environmental leadership in the Bay Area. As playful as he was vibrant, Miller was always misunderstood by critics. But the incredible output that issued from his journeys through life—from his Northern California escapades to his Oregon citizenship to London Society to New York’s literary sphere—was woven with his passions: the magnificence of wilderness; justice for the underdog; the humility of humanity, and transcendence through art and nature.
Good bio on Oregon Cultural Heritage
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Connection to Miller
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Himself
Invented himself
Self-made
Self-chronicled
Here’s his own bio in a newspaper article
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Works
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Quick Link to Complete Poetical Works
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Quotes by
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After losing some toes to frostbite in Alaska, he joked that he was "the most no-toe-rious poet in America”.
Principles of The Hights:
https://www.azquotes.com/author/65314-Joaquin_Miller#google_vignette
Beauty, beauty everywhere!
Everybody is good, or trying to be good.
(To Tennyson) My friend! You, too, love the high-born rain!
“We need fewer words and more ideas.”
https://www.newspapers.com/image/458035902/?match=1&terms=Ambrose Bierce Joaquin Miller lies
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Quotes about
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“Joaquin MIller Went Walkin’” — Kristen Caven
“Deserted two wives, a patriarchal privilege of doing that over and over again…he was looked up to and those were some of his attributes.” - Corinna Gould
“More than anyone else, Joaquin Miller is the poet of our receding frontier.” — Bartleby.com
"The greatest-hearted man I ever knew" — Ambrose Bierce
"The greatest liar this country ever produced. He cannot, or will not, tell the truth.” —Ambrose Bierce
“He was the center of our universe” — Charles Warren Stoddard
a child of nature and perhaps the most picturesque personality of the literary world. —Lily Langtry The Days I Knew (New York, 1925), p. 94
“A real poet, who had "heard in his soul the music of wonderful melodies. Joaquin Miller was a poet whose inspiration came from the mountain peak, the dizzy canon, the roaring cataract, the thunder's crash, the eagle's scream and the panther's whine. Nature was his text book and he read and followed her lessons closely.” — https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/583344193/
“The extent of his wanderings is astonishing” - biographer MSP p. 102
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Library Collections
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https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv33016 - University of Oregon
https://localwiki.org/oakland/Joaquin_Miller
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Notes/Cleanup
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Fan of
https://internetpoem.com/joaquin-miller/biography/ glib/disparaging