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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
Born in Windsor, Conn., April 29, 1841. Graduating from Yale in 1861, he studied divinity for a time at Harvard and then taught in Ohio; was professor of English literature at the University of California, but resigned to devote himself to literary work. He is the author of The Hermitage and other poems (1867); Venus of Milo and other poems (1883); and Poems (1888), issued after his death. Died in Cleveland, O,, Feb. 27, 1887. Simms, William Gilmore Born in Charleston, S. C., April 17, 1806. He studied law, but in 1828 became editor and partial owner of the Charleston City Gazette. His writings were very numerous. Among them may be named Lyrical and other poems (1827); Atalantis, a tale of the sea (1832); The Yemassee (1835); The Partisan (1835); Pelayo (1838); The kinsman (1841; new edition 1854, entitled The Scout); confession, or the blind heart (1842); castle Dismal (1845); The Wigwam and the cabin, or tales of the South (1845-46); Areytos, or songs and ballads of th