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GRISWOLD, RUFUS WILMOT (1815–1857)

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GRISWOLD, See also:RUFUS See also:WILMOT (1815–1857) , See also:American editor and compiler, was See also:born in See also:Benson, See also:Vermont, on the 15th of See also:February 1815. He travelled extensively, worked in newspaper offices, was a Baptist clergyman for a See also:time, and finally became a journalist in New See also:York See also:City, where he was successively a member of the staffs of The See also:Brother See also:Jonathan, The New See also:World (1839–1840) and The New Yorker (1840). From 1841 to 1843 he edited See also:Graham's See also:Magazine (See also:Philadelphia), and added to its See also:list of contributors many leading American writers. From 185o to 1852 he edited the See also:International Magazine (New York), which in 1852 was merged into Harper's Magazine. He died in New York City on the 27th of See also:August 1857. He is best known as the compiler and editor of various anthologies (with brief See also:biographies and critiques), such as Poets and See also:Poetry of See also:America (1842), his most popular and valuable See also:book; See also:Prose Writers of America (1846); See also:Female Poets of America (1848); and Sacred Poets of See also:England and America (1849). Of his own writings his Republican See also:Court: or American Society in the Days of See also:Washington (18J4) is the only one of permanent value. He edited the first American edition of See also:Milton's prose See also:works (1845), and, as See also:literary executor, edited, with See also:James R. See also:Lowell and N. P. See also:Willis, the works (1850) of See also:Edgar See also:Allan See also:Poe. Griswold's See also:great contemporary reputation as a critic has not stood the test of time; but he rendered a valuable service in making Americans better acquainted with the poetry and prose of their own countrymen.

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Correspondence and Other Papers of Rufus W. Griswold (See also:Cambridge, See also:Mass., *898), edited by his son See also:William McCrillis Griswold (1853–1899).

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