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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , Charles Francis , 2nd 1835 - (search)
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dana , Richard Henry , 1787 -1879 (search)
Dana, Richard Henry, 1787-1879
Poet and essayist; born in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 15, 1787; son of Francis Dana; chose the profession of law, but his tastes led him into literary pursuits.
In 1814 he and others founded the North American review, of which he was sole conductor for a while.
He closed his connection with it in 1820.
It was while Dana was editor of the Review that Bryant's Thanatopsis was published in its pages, the author being then unknown.
In 1821 the first volume of The idle man was published.
It was unprofitable, and Mr. Dana dropped it. In it he published stories and essays from his own pen. In the same year he contributed to the New York Review (then under the care of Mr. Bryant) his first poem of much pretension, The dying raven.
In 1827 his most celebrated poetical production, The buccaneer, was published, with some minor poems.
Of that production Wilson, of Blackwood's magazine, wrote, It is by far the most powerful and original of American poetical
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Index (search)
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Appendix: Brook Farm — an address delivered at the University of Michigan on Thursday , January 21 , 1895 : (search)
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 3 : Girlhood at Cambridge . (1810 -1833 .) (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, chapter 7 (search)