Olive Tilford Dargan
Who is Olive Tilford Dargan
Olive Tilford Dargan (January 11, 1869 – January 22, 1968) was a writer and a poet. Her early works revolved around mountain poetry. Her works like: The Cycle's Rim, Lute and Furrow, Highland Annals were inspired from her love of mountains and nature. Later in her career, she published novels that focuses on racism, sexism, and fascism through her feminist visions of political activism and romanticism. Her most notable works were Call Home the Heart and A Stone Came Rolling which were written as part of her Gastonia novels.
Early life
Olive Tilford Dargan was born on January 11, 1869 on a farm in Grayson County, Kentucky. She moved to the southern Ozarks with her parents Elisha Frances Tilford & Rebecca (Day) Tilford, around age eleven and started her work in el...
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Olive Tilford Dargan Poems
- There's Rosemary
O love that is not Love, but dear, so dear!
That is not love because it goes full soon,
Like flower born and dead within one moon,
And yet is love, for that it comes too near...
- Path Flower
A red-cap sang in Bishop's wood,
A lark o'er Golder's lane,
As I the April pathway trod
Bound west for Willesden....
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- Les_center: i hope to initiate new conversations about smith as an appalachian writer with links to activist writers such as wilma dykeman, grace lumpkin, and olive tilford dargan." 2/2
- Book_addict: happy birthday to writer and poet olive tilford dargan (january 11, 1869), author of "the cycle's rim" (1916) et al.
- Manglonalab: "without a tuppence for a ride,
her feet had set her free.
her rags, that decency defied,
seemed new with liberty."
~ olive tilford dargan, excerpted from path flower
- Downhome_nc: we've been learning about rural southern women who paved the way for the work that we do in our communities. today, we're celebrating writer olive tilford dargan. share your hometown heroes in our 10k rural voices survey today:
- Book_addict: happy birthday to writer and poet olive tilford dargan (january 11, 1869), author of "the cycle's rim" (1916) et al.
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