J. Gordon Coogler

American writer Date Of Birth : 1865-12-03T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 1901-09-09T00:00:00Z

John Brown Gordon Coogler (December 3, 1865 – September 9, 1901) was a self-taught American poet who achieved notoriety during his lifetime as a prolific producer of bad verse. Essayist H.L. Mencken is credited with assuring Coogler’s lasting fame as a poetaster by mocking him as an example of the supposedly poor state of arts and letters in the American South.

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