Michael McGovern (poet)

Michael McGovern (1848 – 1933) was a working-class poet who gained national recognition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[1] Born in [Castlefield, Williamstown, County Galway], Ireland, McGovern emigrated first to England and then to the United States.

He eventually settled in Youngstown, Ohio, along with his wife, the former Anne Murphy, and secured work in the local steel mills.

[citation needed] McGovern's poems fall into three basic categories: rolling mill rhymes, labor growls and miscellaneous trifles, and amorous verses "to show that a rolling mill man has a heart as susceptible to the purest motives of love as those who have millions wherewith to purchase a title".

[1] Some scholars have argued that McGovern's work, which features religious themes, shows the influence of the Social Gospel movement.