...not complete without its portraits of the minor figures in the literary life of New York up to the time of the Civil War. But the scope of the present volume does not permit sketches of Paulding and Verplanck , of Halleck and his friend Drake, of N. P. Willis and Morris and Woodworth. Some of these are today only single-poem men, like Payne, the author of , just as Key, the author of , is today a single...