Description: The Poets and Poetry of America. Edited and with an Historical Introduction by Edgar Allan Poe's Nemesis Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Published by Carey and Hart in 1843. The anthology collected poems from over 80 authors, giving prominent space to some of the most popular poets of the day.The book was so popular that it went through three editions within only six months.Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815 – 1857) was an American anthologist, editor, poet, and critic from Vermont. This black hearted villain, despite publishing numerous successful anthologies of poetry and prose and influencing the literary taste of the public for years, is best known as Edgar Allan Poe’s literary executor and the man libeled Poe and created the myth that Poe was a drug and alcohol addled madman with his notorious obituary and subsequent biography. https://www.eapoe.org/geninfo/poegrisw.htm
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Rufus Griswold
Region: North America
Publisher: Carey and Hart
Topic: Poetry
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Poetry
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1843
