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J. Gordon Coogler
J. Gordon Coogler (December 3, 1865 – September 9, 1901), or John Brown Gordon Coogler, 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. Other, more sympathetic readers have found some of Coogler's simple rhymes endearing.
==Life==
Coogler was born in the midlands of South Carolina and seldom left the state. After his father's death on January 8, 1878, Coogler was only 12 years old. After finishing his schooling, he went to work as an apprentice printer with Rev. Sidi Browne at the ''Christian Neighbor'' to support his mother and two sisters. The family lived in Columbia after 1880 at 1818 Marion Street. He opened a job printing shop advertising "Poems Written While You Wait," first at 1226 Lady Street and later at 1402 Main Street. Although his verses attracted both praise and ridicule, he sought to promote his business by distributing self-published booklets of original poems. According to his obituary in the ''Columbia State'' newspaper, Coogler published five thousand short collections of original verse during his lifetime, besides two versions of his book-length collection titled ''Purely Original Verse''.〔Bryan Giemza, "J. Gordon Coogler," in ''Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary'', edited by Joseph M. Flora, Amber Vogel, and Bryan Albin Giemza (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006): p. 79.〕
Coogler's verse attracted mocking attention from prominent American magazines, including ''Puck'' and ''Munsey's Magazine''. Coogler once complained in verse about what he considered the unfairness of literary critics:
Oh you critics! — If an author errs in a single line,
That line you’ll surely quote,
And will give it as a sample fair
Of all he ever wrote.
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