World Class Poetry Blog

Presidents Who Wrote Poetry
29 November 2007, the poet @ 11:31 pm

Abraham Lincoln had Walt Whitman, John Kennedy had Robert Frost, Jimmy Carter created his own muse, Bill Clinton had Maya Angelou, and George W. Bush - well, he’s just Bush. Wit and wisdom at its pinnacle.

The subject is poetry and presidents. More Intelligent Life informs us that George Washington scribbled verse - probably on hemp - and Honest Abe had a death fetish. Go figure.

Well, as you can imagine, a man who’d deliver an address as poetic as the Gettyburg Address could probably write some good verse. Even the Library of Congress serves as a historic witness to that fact. Among the presidents rumored to have written poetry are:

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• John Quincy Adams
• John Tyler
• Abraham Lincoln
• Jimmy Carter

While all of this can be amusing, it all begs me to ask, “Why is it that most of the poetic-minded presidents are pre-Civil War?”

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