Fortunatus Cosby

Fortunatus Cosby (born 1802) was a Kentucky poet, born at Harrod's Creek, Jefferson County, the son of a Louisville judge, and a graduate of Yale College (1819).

Griswold included 1 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.