Literature in the Marketplace

A woman by the name of Dickinson

wrote as if to maintain her health.

In a way, she simply wrote for fun.

She wrote not for fame, but life itself.

Most managed a meager living.

Life was tough for a writer though.

Always pressed for cash and drinking,

was the life of sir Edgar Allan Poe.

And then there were those,

those much like Emerson,

spoken words are what they chose

and so came the rise of lyceum.

Thus, through poetry and stories of fiction;

along with novels full of sentiment

through powerful lectures spoken with conviction

even in newspapers through the discontent.

And through the 18th century

you can certainly see

the developing of space

for literature in the marketplace.