David Bates (poet)
David Bates (March 6, 1809 – January 25, 1870) was an American poet.
He was born in Indian Hill, Ohio, and educated in Buffalo, New York, before working in first Indianapolis then Philadelphia. In 1849, he published a volume of poetry, Eolian.
Among his best-known works are "Speak Gently", which was parodied by Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, as well as "Chiding", and "Childhood".
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- 1809 births
- 1870 deaths
- Poets from Ohio
- 19th-century American poets
- American male poets
- 19th-century American male writers
- American poet, 19th-century birth stubs