Very, Jones
clergyman, author, poet, was born Aug. 28, 1813, in Salem, Mass.
He was a unitarian clergyman living in Salem, Mass., who must be accounted as one of the most purely spiritual of American poets. His Essays and Poems appeared in 1839, the poems including fifty sonnets on the Shakespearean model remarkable for their extreme delicacy and purity of conception. A fuller edition of the Poems alone appeared in 1883, and a complete and revised edition of Poems and Essays in 1886. He died May 8, 1880, in Salem, Mass.