The Poems Of George D. Prentice Edited With A Biographical Sketch

Prentice, George D. / John James Piatt, Editor

Published by Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, 1877

About this Item

xlv, [50]-240pp, steel engraved frontispiece, green cloth with gilt titles, lower extremities worn thru, front inner hinge cracked, a good copy overall. The author was born in Connecticut in 1802. He attended Brown University, where one of his instructors was Horace Mann, and one of his classmates was Samuel G. Howe. In 1830 he settled in Louisville, Kentucky, where he founded the Louisville Journal, one of the outstanding literary newspapers in the country. His clever and forceful editorials are thought to have been one of the factors that kept Kentucky in the Union during the Civil War. As a poet, he was a master of the blank verse form. See Townsend: KENTUCKY IN AMERICAN LETTERS, and Ward : A LITERARY HISTORY OF KENTUCKY.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Poems Of George D. Prentice Edited With A Biographical Sketch
• Publisher: Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati
• Publication Date: 1877
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Kentucky
  • Poetry