Frances Sargent Osgood, a popular member of New York literary circles in the 1840s, achieved national recognition as a poet by satisfying the contemporary ideal of the woman poet and developing connections with editors, publishers, and fellow authors...

The relationship of Edgar Allan Poe and Frances Osgood can be better understood through study of the 'Lenore' poems each wrote. Critics have thus far ignored the links between these poets before 1845 and after the death of Poe, but this ignores the early...

It has been the opinion of twentieth-century literary critics that in the nineteenth century, women poets rarely veered from subjects and styles that the patriarchal world of publishing allotted to them. Corroborating separate spheres ideology, critics focus on the countless poems in magazines...

In the following essay, De Jong analyzes the circumstances surrounding the termination of Osgood's literary relationship with Edgar Allan Poe and maintains that the two maintained a cryptic intratextual communication after their separation.

In the following essay, Petrino discusses how Osgood and Dickinson used the floral metaphors in their poetry to criticize rigid mid-nineteenth-century social and sexual attitudes.

In the following essay, Dobson surveys Osgood's published and unpublished poetry, asserting that Osgood was a provocative and witty commentator on the highly codified sexual attitudes of her day.