Eliza R. Snow's Poetry

Authors

Jill Mulvay Derr
Karen L. Davidson

Keywords

Mormon studies, poetry, Eliza R. Snow

Abstract

As plural wife of two prophets and sister of a third, as an admired leader of women, and as an acknowledged voice of the Saints to the outside world, Eliza R. Snow was as close to the center of formative events and ideas as any woman of early Mormondom. More than her let- ters, discourses, or journals, her poems are comprehensive in their scope and as immediate as snapshots in their depiction of Mormon culture. The more than five hundred poems written by Snow capture the lived Mormonism of the nineteenth century, where revelation and history intersected and Latter-day Saints labored for the meeting of heaven and earth they named Zion.

Recommended Citation

Derr, Jill Mulvay and Davidson, Karen L. (2009) "Eliza R. Snow's Poetry," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 48: Iss. 3, Article 10.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol48/iss3/10