Very, Jones (1813–1880)

US poet and writer. After working briefly as a minister, he retired to Salem and became a transcendentalist poet admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Very was born in Salem, Massachusetts. He sailed with his ship-captain father, then attended Harvard (BA 1836), where he was a tutor in Greek. He studied at Harvard Divinity School (1836–38), but resigned and spent a month in an asylum.