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American

Washington Allston

1779–1843

Washington Allston (1779–1843) was a South Carolina-born painter, the leading American Romantic painter of his day, who also published verse, including The Sylphs of the Seasons (1813).

Griswold included 13 of his poems in The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition, Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1855), the anthology from which the poems here are taken.

Poems (13)

  1. The Paint-King
  2. America to Great Britain
  3. The Spanish Maid
  4. On Greenough's Group of the Angel and Child
  5. On a Falling Group in the Last Judgment of Michael Angelo
  6. On Rembrandt: Occasioned by His Picture of Jacob's Dream
  7. On the Pictures by Rubens in the Luxembourg Gallery
  8. To My Venerable Friend the President of the Royal Academy
  9. On Seeing the Picture of Aeolus, by Pellegrino Tibaldi
  10. On the Death of Coleridge
  11. The Tuscan Maid
  12. Rosalie
  13. Boyhood

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