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\u201cStorms and Sunshine\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Rogers Schenck (1799-1832) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Literary Focus<\/em> (July 1, 1827, Oxford Ohio), 15.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The first issue of the Literary Focus<\/em> appeared on June 1, 1827, just two years and seven months after two professors and twenty students met for Miami\u2019s first classes. Issues of the Focus<\/em> included informative articles, essays, and, in most issues, a few reprinted or original poems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Schenck\u2019s \u201cStorms and Sunshine\u201d was the first of two \u201coriginal poems\u201d that appeared in this first issue (although it was later discovered that it had been previously published in a Cincinnati magazine). The poem poses a question: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWho would admire a brilliant sky,
Were it always clad in unchanging blue?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both of the poems printed in the first issue of the Focus (\u201cStorms and Sunshine\u201d and the anonymous \u201cThe Power of God\u201d) consider the power and meaning of storms. Storms were a favorite theme in Romantic writings of the period, which often linked them to inward spiritual tumult, sublime experience, and oncoming revolutionary change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\nStorms and Sunshine \u201cStorms and Sunshine\u201d William Rogers Schenck (1799-1832) The Literary Focus (July 1, 1827, Oxford Ohio), 15. The first issue of the Literary Focus appeared on June 1, 1827, just two years and seven months after two professors…\n<\/div>\n
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