John Myers O'Hara

John Myers O'Hara (1870–1944) was an American poet.^[1] His poem Atavism is used as the epigram to Jack London's The Call of the Wild:

“Old longings nomadic leap,
 Chafing at custom’s chain;
 Again from its brumal sleep
 Wakens the ferine strain.”^[2]

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Bibliography

• "John Myers O'Hara". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu. University of Pennsylvania. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book//lookupname?key=O%27Hara%2C%20John%20Myers%2C%201870-1944. Retrieved 2011-08-26.