Talk:Riverview (Clarksville, Tennessee)

"Ode to the Confederate Dead"
The PDF says, "During their stay at Riverview Caroline Gordon wrote a novel, Children of Innocence, set in the house and Tate published one of his most widely acclaimed poems, "Ode to the Confederate Dead."" However, the poem was published in 1928. User:Doncram: Do you think we should ignore the NRHP and trim the info?Zigzig20s (talk) 11:03, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, I think the poem Ode to the Confederate Dead is important and I don't see why it should not be mentioned. The poem was used in countless(?) Confederate War memorials.
 * The article currently asserts the poem was written in the house with "dubious" tag, while the NRHP doc says it was published during the years when Tate lived there, which is different. Oh I see the issue, the NRHP doc says the house was purchased by Tate's family in 1930 and you say the poem was published in 1928 so the dates don't jibe. Okay, well, I would believe that local legend is that the poem was written there;  we can say it has been believed locally / there has been local popular belief that it was / local tradition has held that to be so.  And there is more in the NRHP doc about Tate going on to be very productive literarily, including presumably while living in the house, which can be said.
 * There are lots of puffery-like claims about NRHP places supposedly being the "first" or "biggest" or whatever which cannot possibly be known definitively, but the facts of the claims should usually be stated, with further notes pointing to competing claims / contrary evidence about their literal truth. Currently I am contemplating List of covered bridges in Ohio, which claims to have the United States' longest covered bridge (which may be true and is knowable) and also its shortest (which I highly doubt, and how would they know)....(and I just modified the claim assertions there).--Doncram (talk) 12:37, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
 * User:Doncram: Would you please consider rephrasing this article a bit? I feel "publish" makes even less sense because as far as I can tell it was published by Ayer Company Publishers, a publishing house based in Stratford, New Hampshire, in Mr. Pope and Other Poems in 1928...Zigzig20s (talk) 13:16, 20 July 2018 (UTC)